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From: mitch@cepu.UUCP (Bob Mitchell )
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: what's new on the moon--followup
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 15:37:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 15:37:29 1985
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A little late maybe, but here's my vote for more articles like
the one about the moon.

Last summer I visited the Barringer Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff, Ariz.
Some of the Apollo astronauts trained there, I'm told, and there is a
nice little museum of the space program.  A couple of short films and
some great displays.  (Well worth a side trip, if you're in the area.)

Now one of the displays was about the lunar "soil".  It seems there are
these little (microscopic?) glass spheres mixed in with the soil, formed
when meteors impact the surface and the molten material (silica?) is
ejected into the vacuum.  (Sound of limb cracking.)  If I recall this
correctly, the presence of the little glass spheres was predicted
beforehand.  What really impressed me, though, was this microphotograph
of one of these little glass spheres with a micrometeorite impact crater
on it.  I wuz reely like, totally blown away, fer sure, dude.

Now, what's the scoop about these pyramids on Mars?  :-)

Ed Asner! [Television Star]

-- 
Bob Mitchell
UCLA Dept of Neurology
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