[FPSPACE] Where are all the Moon rock?

[Keith Gottschalk]

I am happy to tell FPSPACE & CollectSpace that I have located your 43rd Apollo 11 moon rock - so you can add my name to the last column of your list!

    It sits safe & sound inside a glass case mounted on a wooden pedestal in a passageway near the door of our Parliamentary restaurant. This is in

Parliament,
Parliament St.,
Cape Town 8000
South Africa. 

      It would be best displayed in a museum, since few spare it a passing glance, save the very occasional passing astronomer & astronautics fan-cum-political scientist.  We will work on that.   But safe it is!

Keith Gottschalk
University of the Western Cape.
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Oakland University 2009-1010.

>>> LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> 01/16/10 5:56 AM >>>

January 14th, 2010
Searching for Moon Rocks Here on Earth
Written by Nancy Atkinson 

Wanted: Moon rocks. Whereabouts: Unknown. 
 
Alarmingly, some of our Moon rocks are missing! After the Apollo Moon landings, then-U.S. President Richard Nixon distributed approximately 250 displays containing lunar surface materials from Apollo 11 (1969) to the 50 states and various other countries around the world, and then later gave away 135 rock samples from Apollo 17 (1972). 
 
But NASA is finding that a surprisingly low percentage of these precious rock samples — which are encased in acrylic and mounted on a plaque along with the intended recipient's flag — can actually be located.

Robert Pearlman at CollectSPACE.com has put together two lists, and the whereabouts of only 42 of the Apollo 11 rock samples are known, while only 61 of the Apollo 17 rocks have been located. 
 
Earlier this week, an article in the Honolulu Advertiser rejoiced that Hawaii's missing Moon rocks had been found in a locked cabinet. The rocks weren't technically lost, an advisor to Hawaii's governor said, they just didn't know exactly where they were.
 
Full article here:
 
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01/14/searching-for-moon-rocks-here-on-earth/
 
 

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