[meteorite-list] NASA could sell...

From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:44:58 GMT
Message-ID: <20110626.114458.29472.0_at_webmail01.dca.untd.com>

Here is an idea that has been bandied about...

NASA complains about lack of funds for further exploration.

But they sit on a 856 lbs of Apollo moon samples valued at 50K to 5 million per/gram.

And there are many pieces that have been studied and no longer of scientific use.

Put them up in a legitimate government auction of public property.

In fact they could cut in half every specimen that have at hand sitting in their vaults and maybe even fund another manned mission to the moon or even to Mars.

And all the while they waste tax-payer money chasing down holders of inconsequential milligrams of lunar dust on swatches of tape.

Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470

P.S. I open this with the exercise of figuring out what 400 lbs of Apollo rocks, soil and dust might bring on the open market, either by set price as currently established on the open market for the very few Apollo samples in public domain, or as might be realised in an open Government sponsored auction.

Should be interesting to see what the results might be.

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