[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43

[mark ford]

Stan, and List,

Chunks where [given] in the 70's to various Countries (Genesis Rock?),
(and to people such as the Queen etc), And I know the UK has it's own
Apollo specimen sets (including Orange soil etc) - coz I've seen them!

In any case there maybe a US law prohibiting sale, but I don't think
that prohibits exchanges/'long term' loans... 


Mark Ford




-----Original Message-----
From: stan . [mailto:laser_maniac at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 25 May 2004 04:32
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43


>And as for NASA selling Apollo Mission collected specimens
>if they could get $5 million per gram for them... I'm afraid you
>lose. Even if they would fetch $1 billion per gram, NASA
>_cannot_ sell them by law. Price isn't an issue in that regard.
>They are property of the U.S. Government (i.e. all of us  who
>are U.S. citizens).

are you SURE about that? just because apollo moon rock is the property
of 
the people does NOT automatically mean it cant be sold. there are plenty
of 
things that the government (ie we, the people) own that are sold. if
nasa 
sold moonrock, proceeds would probably have to go to the treasury for
use by 
congress, as opposed to going back into nasa's operating budget, but I'm
not 
aware of any fundamental reason why they couldnt sell the stuff off...

_________________________________________________________________
Get 200+ ad-free, high-fidelity stations and LIVE Major League Baseball 
Gameday Audio!
http://radio.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200491ave/direct/01/

______________________________________________
Meteorite-list mailing list
Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list