“I’d like a Moon rock. So when no one’s looking, I’ll switch it with a rock I found in my back yard this morning.”
Posted on 08/04/2023 9:36:34 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science has questioned the origin of a Moon rock sample collected during a 1971 NASA Moon landing. The startling study published this week has found the Moon rock’s chemical composition is much closer to Earth rock than it is to Moon rock. Researchers have found traces of quartz in the Moon rock – a mineral typically not found on the Moon. The Moon rock sample in question was collected by NASA’s Apollo 14 mission, which saw astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the Moon.
The rock was then loaned by NASA to Curtin University in Western Australia where it was analysed by a team of international researchers.
The researchers have now suggested the rock made its way to the surface of the Moon after an asteroid slammed into our home world billion of years ago.
Research author Professor Alexander Nemchin, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement the tiny 1.8-gram sample of Moon rock is similar in composition to granite.
The expert said: “The sample also contains quartz, which is an even more unusual find on the Moon.
“By determining the age of zircon found in the sample, we were able to pinpoint the age of the host rock at about four billion years old, making it similar to the oldest rocks on Earth.
“In addition, the chemistry of the zircon in this sample is very different from that of every other zircon grain ever analysed in lunar samples and remarkably similar to that of zircons found on Earth.”
Based on the rock’s chemical composition, Professor Nemchin concluded the zircon formed at a low temperature.
The rock most likely also formed in the presence of water and oxygen, further suggesting it came from Earth…
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Possible! However Occam’s Razor would suggest it was picked up locally and used as a prop.
No!!! Not possible!!! /s
I have a rock that came from Uranus.
Experts.?
” Home world? Did AI write this?
The good news—you are on the right track.
The bad news—witches got a better reception in the Salem witch trials than you will get here.
;-)
I would suggest that the original rock collected is in a private collection and this rock is a substitute put in by the thief
Or at some point somebody wanted a souvenir and pulled a switcharoo.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a switcheroo has been pulled sometime in the past.
One second apart. GMTA 😁
Since we clearly cannot recreate the actual event, in a Court of Law, circumstantial and factual evidence wins cases.
Heh. Even used the same word. Are you a Bongino fan?
We completed six trips to the surface of the moon and these scientists question the authenticity of one rock?
Their explanation is that this one rock (containing quartz) is not “typically found“?
Get a life!
No No! arguing about nonsense is far far more important!
“I’d like a Moon rock. So when no one’s looking, I’ll switch it with a rock I found in my back yard this morning.”
Our earth rocks are on display on some distance planet..light years away.
And we know from reliable sources..they dig Chuck Berry.
They knew it was fake due to lack of cheese content
Donald Trump is being subjected to a series of Stalinist show-trials.
The Democrats are succeeding in Communizing and Sodomizing society.
And suddenly, a couple of cranks drag out the old, tired, thoroughly refuted anti-American nonsense about the Apollo program.
They're trolls, trying to hide the Democrats' criminal conduct.
Sure, we can send spacecraft beyond the Solar System and into interstellar space, but going to the moon is just out of the question...gak~
Well, Duh! Everyone knows we never made it to the Moon. It was all filmed on a Hollywood back lot where they later filmed M.A.S.H. ;)
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