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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
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Frank Galikanokus
Feb 9, 2012, 12:19:02 PM2/9/12
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How many errors can you find in this article?
http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penny-nasa-rover-curiosity-cameras.html
JAM
oly
Feb 9, 2012, 2:31:37 PM2/9/12
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On Feb 9, 11:19 am, Frank Galikanokus <FrankGalikano...@nospam.net>
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engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny,
of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more
chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help
ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent
is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and
interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight
counts. Maybe.
oly
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> How many errors can you find in this article?
>
> http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penny-nasa-rover-curiosity-cameras.html
>
> JAM
Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and
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> http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penny-nasa-rover-curiosity-cameras.html
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> JAM
engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny,
of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more
chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help
ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent
is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and
interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight
counts. Maybe.
oly
Frank Galikanokus
Feb 9, 2012, 5:31:45 PM2/9/12
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Not a penny and not copper.
JAM
Rav
Feb 9, 2012, 5:39:14 PM2/9/12
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Ken Barr
Feb 9, 2012, 7:31:37 PM2/9/12
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In article <4F344951...@nospam.net>,
It's apparently a damaged coin as well ... From the article:
# The initials ("VDB") of the coin's designer -- Victor David Brenner --
# are etched onto the coin's reverse.
On all the VDB's I sell, the initials are raised, not incuse ...
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Ken Barr Numismatics email: k...@kenbarr.com
P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com
San Jose, CA 95152 Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc.
408-272-3247 NEXT SHOW: San Jose Coin Club Jan 27 - 29 (table 200)
# The initials ("VDB") of the coin's designer -- Victor David Brenner --
# are etched onto the coin's reverse.
On all the VDB's I sell, the initials are raised, not incuse ...
--
Ken Barr Numismatics email: k...@kenbarr.com
P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com
San Jose, CA 95152 Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc.
408-272-3247 NEXT SHOW: San Jose Coin Club Jan 27 - 29 (table 200)
oly
Feb 9, 2012, 9:16:10 PM2/9/12
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On Feb 9, 6:31 pm, Ken Barr <k...@kenbarr.com> wrote:
> In article <4F344951.493F1...@nospam.net>,
> 408-272-3247 NEXT SHOW: San Jose Coin Club Jan 27 - 29 (table 200)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Well, gee, a bunch more article way down on the page (I hate how they
display pages on the internet). Bronze it is. It might just last
until some human gets there to pick it up. Maybe.
oly
> In article <4F344951.493F1...@nospam.net>,
>
> - Show quoted text -
Well, gee, a bunch more article way down on the page (I hate how they
display pages on the internet). Bronze it is. It might just last
until some human gets there to pick it up. Maybe.
oly
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