[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 25 04:34:47 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B310144E0_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Stan, and List,

Chunks where [given] in the 70's to various Countries (Genesis Rock?),
(and to people such as the Queen etc), And I know the UK has it's own
Apollo specimen sets (including Orange soil etc) - coz I've seen them!

In any case there maybe a US law prohibiting sale, but I don't think
that prohibits exchanges/'long term' loans...


Mark Ford




-----Original Message-----
From: stan . [mailto:laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: 25 May 2004 04:32
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43


>And as for NASA selling Apollo Mission collected specimens
>if they could get $5 million per gram for them... I'm afraid you
>lose. Even if they would fetch $1 billion per gram, NASA
>_cannot_ sell them by law. Price isn't an issue in that regard.
>They are property of the U.S. Government (i.e. all of us who
>are U.S. citizens).

are you SURE about that? just because apollo moon rock is the property
of
the people does NOT automatically mean it cant be sold. there are plenty
of
things that the government (ie we, the people) own that are sold. if
nasa
sold moonrock, proceeds would probably have to go to the treasury for
use by
congress, as opposed to going back into nasa's operating budget, but I'm
not
aware of any fundamental reason why they couldnt sell the stuff off...

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