Minnesota store CUPBOARD was full of rocks FOUND ON MOON
Apollo 11 booty shoved in drawer by National Guard
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Small pieces of the moon have turned up in a Minnesotan basement and no one is quite sure how they got there. The five samples of Moon rock along with a small Minnesotan flag were transported from the Moon after Neil Armstrong's historic first visit to the Earth's satellite.
But the rocks haven't been given quite the respect that the historic mission merits. These particular specimens were uncovered in a storage room at the Veterans Service Building in St Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
Officials are baffled by how they got there, reports the Minnesota Star Tribune.
US Army Major Blane Iffert, former state historian for the Minnesota National Guard, found the rocks in the government storage room and researched them on the interwebs before realising how significant they were. He told the paper:
"When I searched the internet to find additional information about the Moon rocks, I knew we had to find a better means to display this artefact."
Major Kristen Auge of the Minnesota National Guard said she has "no idea how the moon rocks came into our possession" or how long they were the storage area.
Described as "little more than pebbles" by the Tribune, these little pieces of the Moon were handed out by former US president Richard Nixon after the first manned Moon mission. Nixon gave each state a set of Moon rocks along with a miniature version of their state flag that had ridden in the Apollo 11 mission.
Moon rocks often go wandering, as we have catalogued many times. NASA has started to get in trouble for its butter-fingered management of these precious resources.
The St Paul rocks have now been gifted to the Minnesota Historical Society, which will use them at STARBASE, a science, technology, engineering and maths centre for youngsters. ®
COMMENTS
Eh?
"The five samples of Moon rock along with a small Minnesotan flag were transported from the Moon..."
I can see tomorrow's Daily Star now: "Minnesotan souvenir shop FOUND ON MOON!!11!!"
Just go fetch some more, what's the problem?
There is a whole Moon full of it!
sigh
Those rocks shouldn't be nearly as valuable as they are but considering the way things are going it might be another century before we can get more. Wonder what people would have said in the late 1960's in the US if we told them 40+ years in the future the only way we could get into space is by hitching a ride from our "buddies" then the Russians. Eat that humble pie.
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