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Apollo Discussions => The Reality of Apollo => Topic started by: Allan F on February 14, 2018, 05:00:17 PM
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At the Tycho Brahe planetarium in Copenhagen. It is supposedly a 200 gram rock collected by Apollo 17.
That's a big rock to be outside USA.
Is it genuine?
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At the Tycho Brahe planetarium in Copenhagen. It is supposedly a 200 gram rock collected by Apollo 17.
That's a big rock to be outside USA.
Is it genuine?
Checks out, I'd say. See page 4 of 5 of this PDF (https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/75015.pdf) and this website (https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/displays/index.cfm#history) listing various Lunar Sample Displays and this PDF (https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/displays/lunarsampledisplays.pdf) (see page 12). Both the sample ID number and location match up.
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Kewl. It's probably worth more than the building itself.
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Kewl. It's probably worth more than the building itself.
Until we send people up with the tools to study in-situ about as well as what we do on Earth, priceless, I'd say. At least it's not another piece of petrified wood! ;D
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Note, these Lunar Sample Displays should not be confused with the Goodwill samples (70017 (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/70017.pdf)) - that were distributed to nations around the world.
collectspace have an article (http://www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_goodwill.html) about it with a request to try to track down more of the current locations of the presentation items.
Te Papa in Wellington NZ have a piece of the Goodwill sample along with a flown NZ flag:
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/64372
BTW: when you read 260mm (width), 365mm (height), 60mm (depth) that's the commemorative piece of wood - not the sample.
I recall this being on display at the old Dominion Museum in Wellington. These days the item is in storage.