[FPSPACE] Where are all the Moon rock?

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

 The Geological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark has "a small piece of  the
moon, brought back by the famous Apollo 17 in December 1972."

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Jens Kieffer-Olsen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Gottschalk [mailto:kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za]
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:43 PM
> To: contact at collectspace.com; fpspace at friends-partners.org;
> ljk4 at msn.com
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Where are all the Moon rock?
>
>
> 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-roc
ks-here-on-earth/





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