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Article #6631Re: Moon Dust For Sale
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:03
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:03
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In article <30DEC199217541542@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
>...2 inch piece of transparent tape which has some Moon dust on it. This is
>the first time that Moon dust is being offered for sale. The Moon dust
>was collected by a NASA technician from the spacesuit of astronaut Dave Scott
>after his Apollo 15 trip to the Moon in July, 1971. It is guarantteed
>to be genuine by Superior Galleries and is expected to be sold
>in the price range of $75,000 to $100,000...
For anyone with $100k to spare who's feeling interested :-), note that
unless things have changed recently, the ownership of this Moon dust is
best described as "disputed". NASA's position is that all, repeat all,
lunar material returned by Apollo is US government property, and any
offered for private sale is stolen goods.
--
"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale Message-ID: <C03Bu0.Dv1@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:03:35 GMT References: <30DEC199217541542@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16