28-08-2009, 04:02 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Myra Bronstein Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:The implications are rather amazing, and I guess every receipient of a moon-rock will now start testing them. Most all were given encased in plexiglass with a plaque and seal of the USA w/flag. It was once insured for 2 million...and is worth 2 cents - if that!......hmmmm.... Hey, Jack, maybe you were right.
I'm agnostic on the veracity of the moon landings. But I would LOVE it if this incident spurred more "moon rock" testing and they proved fraudulent. It's my domino theory--if one whopper is exposed maybe people will open their minds to others.
Back to reality, the mainstream media would probably refuse to report a wide spreak moon rock dubunking.
This is not a subject I've labored on, but my educated guess is that there were some real and some not real missions. I'm a professional mineral collector and mineralogist and it is quite easy [if expensive!] to test if a rock is terrestrial or not [meteor, moon-rock, other]. I'm also aware from mineral shows that very small pieces of rock represented as moon-rock get prices in the many millions. I fear many have been had....but that an Ambassador, who presumably got the sample from NASA, was passing a fake [likely unaware of this fact]......is really amazing! Many museums must be quite alarmed today, and authorizing the appropriate tests! I do believe some samples have proven to be non-terrestrial - although some non-terrestrial rock does come down to Earth naturally - meteorites, for example. Another indication on meteorites are ages older than the Earth. I have one such in my collection. It hardened from molten form about 1 billion years before Earth did.
Peter, I did not know of your geological expertise. In recent years
I read that METEORITES FROM THE MOON had been discovered in
Antarctica. Please tell me how...
1. A meteorite would decide to leave the moon and go to earth, and
2. How is it determined that a given meteorite is "from the moon"?
When I read this, my curiosity was aroused.
Jack
PS...anyone interested in my Apollo studies click on:
http://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_index1.html
http://www.aulis.com/skeleton.htm