06/19/2013 20:26
Vienna: Show the Natural History Museum in Vienna as of Wednesday, three rock samples from the moon, and one of them of basalt with a weight of 84 grams and 3.3 billion years old.
He is responsible for the rock group Ludwig Ferrier "In Europe there are 11 institutions subjected lunar samples, but places are not known to the public on a large scale".
The three pieces displayed permanently as of Wednesday, and the source of the U.S. space agency NASA collected 381 kilograms of lunar rocks over six trips to the moon between 1969 and 1972.
And rocks displayed in Vienna collected during the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 in 1971 and 1972.
And a rock of basalt and weighing 84 grams was formed 3.3 billion years ago, which is extracted from the heart of rock weighing 9.6 kilograms was brought to earth in the year 1971, according to Ludwig Ferrier.
The visitors to the exhibition can see the site from each sample lifted from the surface of the moon by half moon map.
Moon rocks at an exhibition in Vienna
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