[meteorite-list] Chang's Moon

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:11:58 -0500
Message-ID: <B7C2F141A7B445879962A323DAC2A7DF_at_Notebook>

Cool post Doug!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "mexicodoug" <mexicodoug at aol.com>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Chang's Moon


> Here's the first public photo from China's first Moon orbiter launched
> last month.
>
> http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/n639462/132125.html
>
> Not bad for the Chang'e ship (apparently pronounced "Ch-ong-er" after the
> snooping woman in her husband's personal items, who feared being caught,
> ate the evidence (her husband's vitamin herb) and fled in to the Moon with
> her rabbit that now manufacture herbal remedies).
>
> By the time we see manned voyages back to the Moon, a thriving business in
> Chinese restaurants will be serving travelers take-out.
>
> The Chinese do have a sense of humor. Curiously, Apollo 11 (Armstrong,
> Collins, Aldrin, 1969) and Houston joked about this Chinese legend upon
> arriving by the Moon in what was to become the first Moonwalk, and now
> China has contending for the last laugh,
>
> Mission Control: "...Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for
> 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon because she stole the
> pill for immortality from her husband. You might also look for her
> companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is only
> standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the
> rabbit is not recorded."
>
> Michael Collins: "OK we'll keep a close eye for the bunny-girl."
>
> Best Wishes,
> Doug
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