I beg to differ that they are not rare any more. A single person could easily carry all of the known lunar meteorites on their back at once. If you compared to this to diamond production, you would need bulldozers and dumptrucks to care a single day's yield.
Best Regards, Adam ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6:33:21 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Moon Rocks illegal? Greg, Those articles are very old and outdated. The Geotimes article is dated Sept. 2002 The Madsci one is from Dec. 2000. Things heve changed, there are now over 50 known, different lunar meteorites. Not so rare anymore. Anne M. Black _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc. _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/) In a message dated 9/12/2009 7:04:09 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: It seems Lunar Rock is a "controlled substance" and is illegal to own... http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/20/lunar-rocks-are-a-co.html http://www.geotimes.org/sept02/NN_moon.html http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-12/976929331.As.r.html Is this true? What does it mean for Lunar Meteorites? Can anyone offer info about this? Thanks, and hope everyone has a great weekend (whats left of it) Greg C. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
