IIRC LUNA 16 returned in 1970 with about 100g of
moon samples.

Adam

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Eschew obfuscation. Eliminate such idiom previous
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"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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"Davoud"

And there are some legal bits of the moon
floating around -- returned
by Russian spacecraft. These bits are not the
property of the U.S.
government.

Davoud
I don't recal any Russian lunar sample
missions! There are so called
"lunar meteorites" or samples blasted off the
Moon by a meteorite impact.
None of these would be in the monetary bracket
noted in the original
message. If someone bids this amount I've got
some lunar realistate for
you! ;-)