Tag: moon rocks
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #12: Moon Rocks At Argonne
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #12. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! From the September 1969 edition of the ESCONI “The Earth Science News”. Some Moon rocks were studied at Argonne National Laboratory in 1969 and…
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Rocks From Moon in Australia Contain Tranquillityite
Via Science: A mineral previously known only from moon rocks and lunar meteorites has now been found on Earth. Researchers discovered the substance—dubbed tranquillityite after the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon in July 1969— at six sites in Western Australia. The mineral occurs only in minuscule amounts and has…
