Moon Dust Collection That 'Lost' Has Found Back

Indobusiness - Moon Dust collection results led the Apollo 11 mission Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin discovered. Moon dust was found after 40 years hidden in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

"We do not know how and when the dust collection tube Months ended up in storage," said Karen Nelson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who made a surprising discovery Space was quoted on Thursday (23/05/2013).

Together these collections, which also found a scientific paper published in the Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference 1971, entitled "Study of carbon compounds in Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 returned lunar samples".

Scientific papers were found written by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, including the Nobel laureate chemist Melvin Calvin. The paper outlines the importance of keeping the dust Month of contamination during landing to Earth and Moon dust Togen bacterial contamination on Earth.

There are 20 pieces of moon dust samples were found. The samples should be sent to the Space Sciences Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Not yet known how the moon dust samples ended up just sitting in the lab collection.

After this discovery, Nelson immediately contacted NASA. He intends to return the sample is at once asked permission to open the Moon tube containing dust. NASA allow Nelson to open it.

In total, the Apollo missions brought 382 pounds of rock and dust samples to Earth's moon between 1969-1972. A total of 68 grams was given to Calvin for examination. However, the number of samples returned to NASA only 50 grams.

Ryan Zeigler, curator at NASA's Apollo mission samples, say, 18 gram samples were not returned by Calvin may have been destroyed in research. Number of samples found 3 grams of Nelson himself. According to Zeigler, the sample may end up in the lab because of miscommunication.

Zeigler said that he did not know whether the newly discovered samples will be studied again. However, he said that this sample is very exciting and can satisfy the demand for a sample of any need in the future.