[meteorite-list] Apollo 11 Moon Dust Stolen From Sweden Museum

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:22 2004
Message-ID: <20020908044051.49956.qmail_at_web10303.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all

The same one has succeeded here to Rome years ago
during an exhibition on the space, a ampoule
containing lunar powder has been broken off during the
polish. The responsible had telephoned to me deprived
of hope to the 01.00 am of the morning for knowing if
I could find to it some lunar powder....
Regards

Matteo

--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&ncid=732&e=10&u=/ap/20020907/ap_on_re_eu/sweden_moon_dust
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> Moon Dust Stolen From Sweden Museum
> Associated Press
> September 7, 2002
>
> STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Four grains of moon dust
> brought to Earth
> by the first manned lunar mission were stolen from a
> space exhibit
> in Sweden, a museum official said Saturday.
>
> The dust was collected by astronauts during the
> Apollo 11 mission
> in 1969 and presented to Sweden as a gift by
> President Nixon a year
> later.
>
> The Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm
> displayed the
> four .04-inch particles in a coin-sized capsule
> inside a stainless
> steel cylinder capped with a glass plate, museum
> spokesman Goeran
> Adenskog said.
>
> Museum staff noticed Tuesday morning that someone
> had smashed the
> glass plate and removed the capsule, Adenskog said.
>
> "We don't think it has any commercial value when the
> moon dust has
> been taken out of its context. Without documentation
> it is very
> difficult for a layman to determine whether its moon
> dust or earth
> dust," Adenskog said.
>
> Police were notified but had dropped the
> investigation for lack of
> clues, he said.
>
> Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz"
> Aldrin became
> the first men to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
>
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Received on Sun 08 Sep 2002 12:40:51 AM PDT