[meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer

[Richard Kowalski]

Below was my response to Shawn.

Richard Kowalski

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Pretty easy one Shawn, but I'm not sure it'll be the one you are thinking of, and I'm sure I won't be the 10th "correct" submission...

Hadley Rille

The Apollo missions cost, in 2005 dollars, ~170 Billion dollars.
Returning with a total of 381.7 kg of material, thus each gram costs a whopping $44,537,594.97, so this is the cost, per gram of Hadley Rille, 5 years ago. The price has increased since then...

Since Hadley Rille was an estimated in weight at 3 milligrams, the total cost of the entire meteorite was, again in 2005 dollars, $133,612.77