[meteorite-list] Moon Dust

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:37:17 -0400
Message-ID: <BANLkTimVKShN9V45ufmcTfB78+1s=4UORQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Steve, Phil, List,

This is an incredible waste of taxpayer funds. I wonder how many tens
of thousands of dollars these investigations cost? Is it really worth
a ton of public money to recover a few milligrams of lunar dust?
Afterall, NASA has kilos of this stuff under lock and key. It's not
like science is suffering because someone is offering a piece of dusty
tape on auction.

This is yet another example of government idiocy, backwards
priorities, and frivolous spending of taxpayer money. The agents
involved should be ashamed of themselves and they should spend their
time looking for real criminals.

I'd love to have some of Florian's tape, and if I will buy some if I
can ever afford it. And I invite the feds to come and try to take it.
 Notice I said "try", because it will take a Seal Team to retrieve it
from my possession. ;)

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 6/25/11, Steve Schoner <schoner at mybluelight.com> wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Yes it was and still is legal... At least until this agent decided to act.
>
> Florian Noller at Spaceflori.com has been selling this openly for TEN YEARS.
> And not on the "Black Market"  Mr Noller purchased that strip of tape and
> other space related items in widely publicised space memorabilia auction in
> Germany in 2001.
>
> NASA was aware of it then, did an investigation of it and it was of no
> consequence then,and the auction proceeded without this tape being
> confiscated or the auction of it halted.
>
> Spaceflori.com sold tiny triangles of it, hundreds of them over the last 10
> years, and these were even advertised openly at "Collectspace.com." See:
>
> http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/000588.html
>
> In fact if you go there and do a search of their archives, and forums you
> will see as of last year these exact Apollo 11 Moon Tape swatches were being
> sold and traded by members of those forums.
>
> It was never a "Black Market" or "under the table operation. as is widely
> reported in the viral Intent news stories, NY Times in particular.
>
> Why the fuss now?.. Makes me wonder if some official is attempting to
> justify his job.
>
> Make a big splash over nothing... All to make a point.. And maybe make a
> precedent over nothing.
>
> Steve Schoner
> IMCA #4470
>
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> I thought the dust on the tape was the only legal to own and sell NASA lunar
> material.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/missing-moon-dust-found-in-st-louis-auction-business-returned-to-nasas-johnson-space-center/2011/06/23/AGhR1zhH_story.html
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>
> Phil Whitmer
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Received on Sat 25 Jun 2011 09:37:17 AM PDT