Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Touch the Moon
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 07:29:49 -0500
References: <34b36265-fff5-f165-5323-b5544316d2de@gmail.com>

NASA's PR has been quite good.   You moon rock is but one example.   Both
major installations(Houston and Kennedy Space Center) have fabulous day
long things to see, so, and touch.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 12:15 AM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Yes, really. At the NASA visitor center, they have an exhibit of moon
> rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. One of them is epoxied into a
> clear plastic container with a slot for visitor's hands, so we can touch
> the rock. So I did. This was during our visit to Texas in late February,
> just before the pandemic hit the U.S. and the lockdown was imposed.
>
> Anyway, I did the best I could with the plastic barriers.  Quite a
> thrill to actually touch a piece of the moon.
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/49999863973/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> For the geologically inclined, here are several more moon rocks. The
> first one looks like very old meat loaf in cross-section...
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/50000637892/in/dateposted-public/
> >
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/50000380346/in/dateposted-public/
> >
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/49999863963/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20/1.7.  Enjoy!
> --Peter
>
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