[meteorite-list] Lunar Rocks Are First Direct Evidence of Collision That Formed Moon
Lunar Rocks Are First Direct Evidence of Collision That Formed Moon, National eographic, June 6, 2014. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140605-earth-moon-theia-evidence-space-science/ Body that formed the Moon came from a different neighborhood. (The body that smacked into Earth has a distinctive elemental signature.) Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/06/body-that-formed-the-moon-came-from-a-different-neighborhood/ Herwartz, D., A. Pack, B. Friedrichs, and A. Bischoff, 2014, Identification of the giant impactor Theia in lunar rocks. Science. vol. 344, no. 6188, pp. 1146-1150 DOI: 10.1126/science.1251117 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6188/1146 Also, there is: Four-billion-year-old rocks yield clues about Earth's earliest crust. ScienceDaily, University of Alberta http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140529112057.htm News360 at http://news360.com/article/241073278 ; and Ancient rocks yield clues about Earth's earliest crust by Bryan Alary, University of Alberta, May 28, 2014 http://news.ualberta.ca/newsarticles/2014/may/ancient-rocks-yield-clues-about-earths-earliest-crust Reimink, J. R., T. Chacko, R. A. Stern, L. M. Heaman, 2014, Earth’s earliest evolved crust generated in an Iceland-like setting. Nature Geoscience. Published online May 25, 2014 10.1038/ngeo2170 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2170.html Yours, Paul H. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Lunar Rocks: Safe and Sound After Rita
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html Lunar Rocks: Safe and Sound After Rita Leonard David space.com September 28, 2005 Hurricane Rita's run-in with the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas caused minor facility and ground damage. Furthermore, some of the most precious rocks on Earth also escaped unscathed - the Apollo lunar samples. The Lunar Facility never lost power and thus never lost the nitrogen gas that keeps the cabinets in which they are stored dry and free of oxygen, said, Gary Lofgren, Lunar Curator and Planetary Geoscientist within the NASA center's Astromaterials Acquisition Curation division. Lofgren said that the Lunar Facility is capable of withstanding a category 5 hurricane with its attendant frightening storm surge tide. Fortunately it did not need that capability this time. We are all well and back in business, he added. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] lunar rocks
Hello everyone. I just heard on the news that small portions of lunar rocks will be given to the original astronaut class as well as Walter Cronkite. This to me seems like a precedent setting alteration of the official government policy prohibiting private ownership of lunar material. It might (probably will at sometime) make for an interesting court case. Of course there may be some fine print attached to these gifts that the newscast failed to mention. George __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
