Moon Rock Desk Set: Place Your Bids for This (possibly) Historic Item Now!

Don't get sucked in folks. Any legit Moon rock sample is the property
of NASA and the U.S. Government. A similar situation occured at an auction
a few years ago and the sample was confiscated.
Ed

"John Steinberg" wrote in message
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Here's the item, and some background. Reserve is $50,000.00:
http://www.lelands.com/itemlist.aspx?category=Space
Pen NOT included. Auction ends in about 7 days 3 hours.

An impressively kitschy and cheesy piece of Space Americana, I'm sure
many on s.a.a. will be bidding on it.

BTW, if anyone knows the current whereabouts of Astro Barbie, please
step forward and be heard. She could be worth millions!

NY Times article about the desk set:
http://nytimes.com/2003/11/27/nation...OON.html?8hpib

If only Kate and Spencer were still here. Anyway, back to the Turkey
Day festivities. Time to light the aluminum Festivus tree and break out
the David Beckham pinata.

Ewps!


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Ed Majden:
Don't get sucked in folks. Any legit Moon rock sample is the property
of NASA and the U.S. Government [sic]. A similar situation occured at an auction
a few years ago and the sample was confiscated.

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Considering its provenance, the bits of dust in question may well have
come from the Moon on an Apollo spacecraft. Not that I'll be bidding --
I am surrounded by vast quantities of material that was actually made
billions of years ago in the centers of stars, so a mere trace of moon
dust holds little interest for me.

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

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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! ;-)

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

Adam

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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! ;-)

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.

Ed Majden
I don't recal any Russian lunar sample missions!

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Of course not -- you're too young. Luna 16, launched 19700912, Luna 20,
launched 19720214, and Luna 24, launched 19760809, all returned soil
and rock samples from the moon. See
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/moon/table_missions.html, e.g.

Davoud

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

Adam
I stand corrected. Completely forgot about this mission and when I
checked the listing of "Voyages in our Solar System" by Randy Attwood in the
RASC Observers Handbook 2004, it was not mentioned. Perhaps an oversight or
it was not included as it was not considered a "first". I think it should
have been however because of the remote sampling technique used to obtain
the small sample. This should be done with MARS before lives are risked
trying to bring back samples.
Ed

"Davoud
Of course not -- you're too young. Luna 16, launched 19700912, Luna 20,

Thanks for the complement! I was around to photograph the 3rd stage
rocket carrier of Sputnik on its second pass over Western Canada. ;-)

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:24:56 GMT, "Ed Majden"
wrote:

I don't recal any Russian lunar sample missions!

There were several Soviet lunar sample return missions 25-30 years
ago. I suppose the objects all would be the property of the current
government.