Greetings,
There is an article that says there are something like 517 or more
missing Moon Rocks that NASA has loaned out in fourty years. I think my
problem with this is when they shake down little old ladies for small
bits of dust that was given to their husbands for working on projects
yet they can't keep track of the big stuff.
http://www.france24.com/en/20111208-hundreds-nasas-moon-rocks-missing-audit
--AL Mitterling
Quoting "Benjamin P. Sun" <bpsun2...@gmail.com>:
I do believe quite a bit of Apollo lunar material has been lost or
stolen. Which is unfortunate. But not surprising or unexpected, given
human nature.
Though it may not be as much as the article makes it seem. The article
doesn't say how much(weight-wise) is missing.
You have to consider that a certain amount of the Apollo lunar
material was destroyed by scientists when they analyzed some samples.
This may not have been all accounted for. Also, did they save all the
cutting/chipping dust and fragments from the samples since 1969?
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-misplaced-nasa-moon-space.html
one of the responses from the article above:
"This is an intriguing story at this time of many intrigues in science
and politics.
A special investigator from NASA showed up at my lab at the University
of Missouri in ~1972 and accused us of losing Moon samples.
I showed him receipts for every sample received, every sample
melted/vaporized/analyzed, and every sample returned to the Lunar
Curator.
We sent him back to Houston, but he never told us if he found out why
he had been sent on this "wild goose chase."
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo"
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