[FOTZeiss] Fw: Apollo 12-Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved

[Glenn A. Walsh]

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--- On Wed, 5/4/11, LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM> wrote:

> From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM>
> Subject: Microbes presumably brought back by Apollo 12 from Surveyor 3 may not have been on the Moon at all
> To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
> Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 2:19 AM

> Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
> 
> Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist
> Date: 02 May 2011 Time: 07:25 AM ET
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> There has been a long-lived bit of Apollo moon landing
> folklore that now appears to be a dead-end affair: microbes
> on the moon.  
> The lunar mystery swirls around the Apollo 12 moon landing
> and the return to Earth by moonwalkers of a camera that was
> part of an early NASA robotic lander – the Surveyor 3
> probe.
>  
> On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan
> Bean made a precision landing on the lunar surface in
> Oceanus Procellarum, Latin for the Ocean of Storms. Their
> touchdown point was a mere 535 feet (163 meters) from the
> Surveyor 3 lander -- and an easy stroll to the hardware that
> had soft-landed on the lunar terrain years before, on April
> 20, 1967. [Video: Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 Probe] 
>  
> Full article here:
>  
> http://www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apollo-12.html
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