[Leica] Touch the Moon

[Frank Filippone]

JPL has/had a similar display, and I do remember the day I had the same 
experience you had in Houston.

It seems impossible to get goose bumps from touching a rock.

Try it yourself.....


Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com
On 6/12/2020 10:14 PM, Peter Klein via LUG 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@N04/49999863973/in/dateposted-public/> 
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> 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@N04/50000637892/in/dateposted-public/> 
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> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/50000380346/in/dateposted-public/> 
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> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49999863963/in/dateposted-public/> 
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> Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20/1.7.  Enjoy!
> --Peter
>
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