Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
http://www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apollo-12.html
The still from the old 16mm film is very telling. The "clean room"
standards of the day were obviously primitive by today's standards.
Jeff
--
" Solids are a branch of fireworks, not rocketry. :-) :-) ", Henry
Spencer 1/28/2011
The actual presentation (31 pages, pdf)
John D. Rummel, Judith H. Allton, and Don Morrison
"A Microbe on the Moon?
Surveyor III and Lessons Learned for
Future Sample Return Missions"
can be found at
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/sssr2011/presentations/rummel.pdf
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Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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