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

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! ;-)

"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