News Moon Rocks!

[Scruce]

Today I was given the news that some rocks from our very own Moon, brought back by NASA (they have not yet said which Apollo mission it was), will be shown and handled by me and my peers at our college.

It will happen on Monday 16th January, where we will get to meet a NASA representative and see what the rocks are like.

I will take photos on that day, and hopefully post a few of them here.

 

[HAL9001]

I wish we would do so in our school....

 

[Moach]

Moon Rocks! That Rocks! :headbang: :lol:

i hear nasa brought back about 400kg of moon during the apollo program.... they distributed a lot of it over a number of educational institutions - guess they're still doing that, then :hmm:

 

[Grover]

unless theyve secretley added to their 400kg since apollo 17 (like... a stealth version of the saturn V)

 

[FADEC]

Fake! Since nobody was on the moon, there can't be real moon rocks.

Just kidding (I wonder if some people at your college are infected with the conspiracy virus)

What makes those moon rocks interesting for me isn't that they are from the moon, but that they were carried from the moon by humans.

 

[Scruce]

After a few delays, the Moonrock 'session' is tomorrow and completely private, which means it will be just me and the NASA representative. I will take photos.

The agenda is:

Rock granules from Apollos 15/16/17.
A meteorite that landed on earth in the 1800s.
A rock NASA thinks is from Mars.
A meteorite that is older than the solar system.

 

[Scav]

Can I have some of your luck?

 

[Scruce]

Honestly, all I can say is that I forgot about this thread completely after it happened.

Anyway, here are the pics:

Picture | Description

|This is the meteorite that landed in the 1800s, it's quite heavy and smells very metallic. The NASA representative is holding it in the second photo, I'm holding it in the first.

|The Nakhla meteorite (Google it!), arguably the closest to Mars anyone will get in our lifetime.

|The Murchison meteorite (also Google it!). It landed in Australia not long after Apollo XI visited the Moon.

|A collection of Lunar samples (with annotation).

 

[N_Molson]

It's where dedication to astronomy & spaceflight pays ! :thumbup: