Philosophy
Almost 40 years ago this day [July 30th, 19171] Apollo 15 landed on the Moon. And one of the items brought back to Earth was the so-called “Genesis Rock” which after analysis was dated to be 4.5 billion years old making it almost as old as the solar system and considerably older than any rock formed on earth. The rock is an anorthosite, composed mostly of the plagioclase feldspar, anorthite.
Bill Ashworth from Linda Hall Library wrote...
"Apollo 15 landed on the Moon on July 30, 1971, not quite forty years ago. This was the fourth Apollo mission to land on the lunar surface, and the first that was targeted for one of the highland areas, in this case, a region in the lunar Apennines called Hadley Rille. Apollo 15 was also the first to carry a land vehicle, the Lunar Rover, which spared the astronauts from having to walk and lug around their lunar rocks. The Lunar Rover was a pretty amazing piece of transportation; it ran on batteries, with an electric motor powering each wheel and the steering. It weighed just over 400 pounds, and could carry nearly 1000 pounds of payload. Imagine trying to put 5000 lbs into a half-ton pickup! The rovers were not returned to Earth, so there are three of them still on the moon, just waiting for you, if you sign up for a tourist package. Just bring along two Delco 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide batteries--I am sure you can find these at Sears. And speaking of lunar rocks, one of the big finds of Apollo 15 was the “Genesis Rock”, an igneous rock containing mostly plagioclase feldspar, which means it must be very old. White and sparkly (and about the size of a small loaf of bread), the rock was immediately recognized by the geologically-trained astronauts as significant. It rode back on the Lunar Rover to the spacecraft, and thence to the Lunar Lab on earth...."
- Deceased--yutu
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Philosophy
“Genesis Rock”
Almost 40 years ago this day [July 30th, 19171] Apollo 15 landed on the Moon. And one of the items brought back to Earth was the so-called “Genesis Rock” which after analysis was dated to be 4.5 billion years old making it almost as old as the solar system and considerably older than any rock formed on earth. The rock is an anorthosite, composed mostly of the plagioclase feldspar, anorthite.
Bill Ashworth from Linda Hall Library wrote...
"Apollo 15 landed on the Moon on July 30, 1971, not quite forty years ago. This was the fourth Apollo mission to land on the lunar surface, and the first that was targeted for one of the highland areas, in this case, a region in the lunar Apennines called Hadley Rille. Apollo 15 was also the first to carry a land vehicle, the Lunar Rover, which spared the astronauts from having to walk and lug around their lunar rocks. The Lunar Rover was a pretty amazing piece of transportation; it ran on batteries, with an electric motor powering each wheel and the steering. It weighed just over 400 pounds, and could carry nearly 1000 pounds of payload. Imagine trying to put 5000 lbs into a half-ton pickup! The rovers were not returned to Earth, so there are three of them still on the moon, just waiting for you, if you sign up for a tourist package. Just bring along two Delco 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide batteries--I am sure you can find these at Sears. And speaking of lunar rocks, one of the big finds of Apollo 15 was the “Genesis Rock”, an igneous rock containing mostly plagioclase feldspar, which means it must be very old. White and sparkly (and about the size of a small loaf of bread), the rock was immediately recognized by the geologically-trained astronauts as significant. It rode back on the Lunar Rover to the spacecraft, and thence to the Lunar Lab on earth...."
- Deceased--yutu
"Farewell to Yutu" by Morris Jones February 12th, 2014 SPACE DAILY By now, it seems almost certain that China's Yutu Moon rover has died a premature death in the cold lunar night. The rover has been exposed to sunlight for a few days, and...
- A Lunar Satellite?
This is ridiculous. Would the asteroid have any effect on Earth's tides? "NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit" by Jeff Hecht January 2nd, 2013 New Scientist Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of...
- Some Of The Original 842 Pounds Is Missing
"Hundreds of NASA moon rock samples are missing or stolen" by Shane McGlaun December 9th, 2011 SlashGear With every bit of the moon rock and soil samples on Earth having been brought back by NASA missions to the moon they are all considered government...
- Deceased--brian H. Mason
Brian H. Mason 1917 to December 3rd, 2009 "Brian H. Mason dies at 92; scientist known for study of meteorites, moon rocks" The Smithsonian geochemist was the first to discover that a rock found in Antarctica came from the moon. He wrote one of his field's...
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"Among the project's unlikely achievements has been the discovery that the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of two-and-a-half inches a year." A significant disclosure. In time the moon will lose its effect on the Earth and will alter Earth's...