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LUNAR NEWS No. 63 September 1998

In This Issue: Lunar The Lunar News Mission Statement 2 Phone Numbers 2 Update Meet the Staff! 2 see page 4

Curator's Comments 3

Prospector's Grand Finale 4 CAPTEM Facility Astromaterials at JSC 5 Subcommittee CAPTEM Facilities Subcommittee 6 see page 6 Safety First 7

A Fond Farewell 9

How to Request Lunar Samples 10

Accessing the Curatorial Databases 13

Sample Request Deadline - Oct. 21, 1998 CAPTEM Meeting - Nov. 4-6, 1998

Lunar News 1 Lunar News Mission The purpose of "Lunar News" is to provide a newsletter Meet forum for facts and opinions about lunar sample studies, lunar geoscience, and the significance of the in solar system exploration. the Staff! Editor's Notes "Lunar News" is published by the Planetary Missions and Materials Branch, Earth Science & Solar System Exploration Division, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is sent free to all interested individuals. To be included on the mailing list, write to the address below. Please send to the same address any comments on "Lunar News" or suggestions for new articles.

Sue Goudie was one of three Planetary Missions and Materials Branch children born in Osawatomie, Kansas, Phone Numbers to Harold and Violette Thompson. She has one brother and a sister. She began her career as a stenographer Lunar News Editor during her senior year of high school. Andrea Mosie ...... (281) 483-5769 Sue married a classmate four years Lunar Samples later who had finished ROTC and was Gary Lofgren ...... (281) 483-6187 looking forward to an Air Force career. Messages and General Information The next four years they moved Tari Mitchell ...... (281) 483-5033 around a lot. They started their life in Antarctic Meteorites California working briefly at Marilyn Lindstrom ...... (281) 483-5135 Rocketdyne for Rockwell Engineering. Cosmic Dust and LDEF Then it was off to San Antonio, Texas, Mike Zolensky ...... (281) 483-5128 to be inducted into the Air Force Loan Agreements and Records followed by flight school in Barstow, Dale Browne ...... (281) 483-5132 Florida. From there they moved to Technical Operations Spokane, Washington and then back Vacant ...... (281) 483-5331 to California to the growing aerospace Contamination Control industry. Their daughter Kathy was Dave Lindstrom ...... (281) 483-5012 born there. On the go again they Planetary Mission Science Payloads moved to San Diego, headquarters for Wendell Mendell ...... (281) 483-5064 General Dynamics, to install silos for Chuck Meyer ...... (281) 483-5133 the missiles throughout the U.S. and Eileen Stansbery ...... (281) 483-5540 were eventually assigned to Plattsburgh, New York, where son Tom was born. Their next moves took Mailing Address: SN2 Lunar Sample Curator, NASA them to Huntsville, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, and finally back Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058-3696 USA to the San Fernando Valley of California with Northrop Aviation. Electronic Mail: When the aerospace industry ignited Internet: [email protected]..gov in order to get a man on the Moon, they were sent to Houston, Texas. FAX: 281-483-5347 The children were school age and Sue was kept busy with carpooling, homework, PTA, Brownie Scouts, continued on page 3

2 Lunar News continued from page 2 ballet lessons, Little League ball and Curator's the usual motherly tasks. As the children grew, Sue felt a Comments need to re-establish her career. She began her second career working part- time in a doctor’s office. In 1972, she joined the aerospace workforce at the Gary Lofgren Bendix Aerospace Field Office. The NASA JSC assignment in the Houston office was primarily to track the ALSEP monitoring equipment which had been left on the moon. When the tracking signals faded away Sue moved on to Northrop Services, Inc. working at JSC in lunar sciences. She typed Eight have gone by and I am feeling more like a curator. scientific papers and lunar sample This job has more to it than one ever sees. Much is happening. catalogs and later moved to the Meteorite Processing Laboratory We are circling the Moon and gathering new data that will enhance where they monitored the receipt of our global knowledge of that body. Integrated with the Galileo meteorites from the Antarctic and Clementine data, it will provide the basis for a new round of expeditions, and prepared allocations global lunar investigations. There remains the possibility that of samples for scientific investigators. frozen water exists in the permanently shadowed lunar poles. If Layoffs forced a transfer to Northrop’s water is present it changes how we view the moon as a future main office. She worked there for over outpost for space exploration. There will be a conference this four years. Deciding that aerospace was an based on a CAPTEM initiative “New Views of the Moon unstable field, Sue took a position at Enabled by Combined Remotely Sensed and Lunar Sample Data University of Texas Medical Branch Sets” to examine the new data from the moon collected by the (UTMB) in the Equal Galileo and Clementine missions. Employment office. She worked there for a year but there was no excitement In the category of new planetary samples, we are preparing to in coming to work each day with no receive solar wind samples collected on the , special goals to look forward to. She went to work for General Electric as an Genesis mission. We are modifying a portion of our facility to administrative assistant to the install a class 10 clean room. CAPTEM is overseeing the modifi- Business Manager. Sue worked there cations and Larry Nyquist is heading up a renewed “Facilities for three years until coming to work Subcommittee” to advise us on future curation matters. Their for Lockheed Martin at JSC with many immediate job is to monitor the current construction and insure that former co-workers. the process does not contaminate the rest of the building and the Sue works in the Sample Information Center and is responsible new facility meets our high standards. Lunar processing will be for monitoring Lunar samples, Cosmic suspended during this construction period. Requests submitted to Dust and Antarctic meteorites as they the CAPTEM meeting in November will be processed as soon as are allocated to scientific the construction is completed. investigators. They prepare and process accountability records and Two of our staff have retired, Ed Cornitius after 30 monitor educational packages loaned years on the job. I remember Ed working in old to principal investigators, colleges and universities. They also receive LRL when I first came to work here. Gee that’s a and document all returned samples long time ago. Rita Sosa has also retired. Both will from scientific investigators. be missed. Sue is certainly an asset to the high quality of work that is produced in the Sample Information Center. Our hats off to Sue for a job well done.

Lunar News 3 Prospector's Grand Finale by John E. Gruener Hernandez Engineering

As Lunar Prospector’s primary perpendicular to the ecliptic from a different spacecraft- mapping mission begins to wind plane. Prospector’s current instrument-Moon geometry. down, Dr. Alan Binder and his attitude, and the attitude it has Also, the south-facing, or ‘minus co-investigators are already in been in throughout the mission, Z,’ face of the alpha particle the final stages of planning the is such that when it is over the spectrometer (APS) was second phase of this already Moon’s north pole, the white damaged before reaching the very successful mission ( see conical communications Moon (probably during the September 4 issue of Science antenna points away from the separation from the trans-lunar for the latest scientific results). lunar surface ( in the ‘plus Z’ injection stage), and thus the This second phase, sometimes direction), and the blunt end, or high northern latitudes and polar referred to as the ‘extended bottom, of the spacecraft faces region of the Moon have less mission,’ will involve lowering the Moon. On October 5, a two ‘alpha coverage’ than the rest of the orbital altitude of Lunar step process will flip Prospector the lunar surface. Flipping the Prospector to obtain data with 180 degrees. First, the spin axis spacecraft will allow the better spatial resolution and will be rotated 90 degrees such opposite, or ‘plus Z,’ face of the higher sensitivity. However, that Prospector’s three booms APS to better map the alpha before this second phase begins, will ‘roll’ around the Moon, as if particles coming from the Prospector will be commanded they were spokes on a wheel. northern regions. Finally, during to perform several maneuvers. Then on October 12, Prospector the Leonid meteor shower, the will be rotated another 90 bottom of the spacecraft will be Lunar Prospector continues to degrees and it’s spin axis will pointed in the direction of the orbit the Moon in a 100 km once again be perpendicular to oncoming particles to protect circular polar orbit, with the the ecliptic, though the the electronics and solar arrays spacecraft spin axis roughly spacecraft will now be ‘upside from critical damage. down.’ On December 19, Prospector This is being done so the will perform several maneuvers Prospector science team will that will lower its orbit to a better understand the response circular altitude of 40 km above function of the science the lunar surface. It will remain instruments. Though the in this orbit for about a month so instruments don’t need any that Binder and the others can pointing, hence their be certain that the updated lunar compatibility with a spinning gravity model (made with spacecraft, their data do exhibit Prospector data collected earlier non-symmetric responses which in the mission) accurately vary with latitude. Computer predicts Prospector’s orbital modeling can account for these motion. Once comfortable with responses, but the science team the spacecraft’s performance would like the chance to verify and the gravity model’s the modeling with data collected accuracy, Prospector will be

4 Lunar News commanded in mid-January to impact occurring sometime in again lower it’s orbit, this time July 1999. When all is said and down to a final altitude of 25 km done, Lunar Prospector will above the lunar surface. At this have orbited the Moon more altitude, the spatial resolution of than 5000 times. the neutron, gamma ray, and alpha particle spectrometers will For the engineers and politicians be approximately 40 km (as in the space exploration compared to the 150 km community, Lunar Prospector resolution during the primary will be remembered for many mapping altitude of 100 km). things; simple design, low cost, Also, the sensitivity of the quick production schedule, gravity and magnetic small work force and Astromaterials experiments will increase with streamlined management style, at JSC the square and the cube and maps of potential lunar of the spacecraft’s altitude, resources for use in future by Doug Blanchard respectively. So, when explorations of the Moon. NASA JSC Prospector’s altitude decreases However, in the planetary from 100 km to 25 km ( a four science community, the real We are please to announce the fold decrease), the sensitivity in legacy of Lunar Prospector will addition of Dr. Carl Agee to the the gravity data will increase by be its scientific data sets, which Johnson Space Center staff. Carl 16 times, and the magnetic data will continue to be refined and is a experimental petrologist will have 64 times better studied for many years. who is bringing his high sensitivity. Correlations between the lunar pressure, high temperature samples gathered during the laboratory along with him from Of course, at an altitude of only program and Harvard to JSC. In our search for a new curator (Jim Gooding 25 km above the lunar surface, Prospector’s remote sensing resigned a year ago), it became the gravitational perturbations data will play an integral role in evident that the whole area of to Prospector’s orbit will be the efforts to better understand “astromaterials” needed more great and the circular orbit will our nearest planetary neighbor. emphasis at JSC. Our Center quickly degenerate into an One can only hope that the Director, George Abbey, asked elliptical one. Current modeling recent success of the Lunar the astromaterials community of the orbit suggests that within Prospector and Clementine to find a Chief Scientist for two the orbit should be a missions will rekindle interest Astromaterials for JSC. Carl 10 x 40 km ellipse. At that time, in the Moon, and set the stage Agee fills that bill exceedingly orbital adjustment maneuvers for our return to the lunar surface well. Carl is on Mr. Abbey’s staff, and his office and lab are will be performed, raising in the 21st century. located in the Earth Science & Prospector’s orbit back to a Solar System Exploration circular altitude of 25 km. This Division. One of Carl’s first two cycle will continue tasks is to resume our search for until all of the onboard fuel is You can follow the Lunar the Astromaterials Curator who spent (or until the mission runs Prospector mission at: will lead the curatorial activities out of money, which ever comes including our preparations for Genesis, Stardust, and Mars first). Once Lunar Prospector http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov loses the ability to reboost its samples. We expect the search orbit or control its attitude, the to be successful within the next few months and the transition inevitable impact into the lunar will be completed. surface will quickly follow. Current predictions have this

Lunar News 5 CAPTEM Facilities Subcommitee

By Larry Nyquist NASA JSC

NASA plans to return Subcommittee of LAPST which during construction of extraterrestrial samples from provided oversight during the B31N, and brings invaluable several missions occurring in construction of the Lunar engineering expertise and rapid fire succession early in the Curatorial Facility, Building experience to the subcommittee. next century. The first such 31N. The subcommittee met for the samples will be of the solar wind first time July 17-18, 1998 to implanted into ultrapure In light of the need for long review plans for renovation of materials (primarily silicon lead-time decisions concerning B31N for the Genesis Mission wafers with some diamond, Al, the facilities required for the and to draft a charter for its Au, Ge) during the Genesis upcoming sample return activities. The report of the Mission (PI: Don Burnett), and missions, CAPTEM has subcommittee, consisting of to be returned in August of reconstituted a facilities approval of the plans for 2003. Next in sequence will be subcommittee to advise the renovation of B31N and detailed samples of cometary dust Curatorial Office on ways to recommendations for their captured in aerogel during the best prepare for the curation of implementation, as well as a Stardust Mission (PI: Don future extraterrestrial samples proposed charter for the Brownlee) and returned in 2006. (especially Martian samples) subcommittee’s activities, will Soon thereafter will follow while maintaining the integrity be reviewed by CAPTEM at its Martian samples to be returned of existing sample collections. November meeting. in 2008. The Curatorial Office Membership of the current has traditionally solicited advice subcommittee consists of Larry from the scientific community Nyquist (Chair); Don Burnett, Building 31 N, Lunar Sample on the best use of existing Dimitri Papanastassiou, Clive Facility, NASA JSC. facilities, or requirements for Neal, and Bill Parkan new facilities, to meet the twin (Ex Officio). requirements of protecting the Larry and extraterrestrial samples Dimitri served entrusted to its care while on the original processing them for scientific LAPST study by qualified investigators. committee, This advice has most often Don represents come from CAPTEM and it the Genesis predecessor committees. Mission, Clive Occasionally, when facilities- represents the related questions have been parent com- most urgent, a special facilities mittee, and Bill subcommittee has been formed, was the User as in the case of the Facilities Representative

6 Lunar News JSC Open House The Johnson Space Center opened its doors to the public on August 29, 1998. It was attended by ~70,000 folks from the Houston area. One of the highlights of the day was the Astromaterials exhibit featuring a lunar rock and the hands-on display with a gloved nitrogen cabinet.

SAFETY FIRST

Chuck Landrum, II is the Lockheed Martin Safety Engineer for the Basic and Applied Research Department. Among many, his duties includes performing safety inspections for the Lunar Curatorial Facility and areas in sample curation. Since this is a clean facility, he rarely, if ever, finds any safety problems. He looks for tripping hazards, damaged wiring, sharp edges, UL listed equipment and any other hazards. There are no hazardous chemicals in the lunar processing laboratories, so this decreases the possibility of mishaps of this sort. He does a safety inspection of the entire facility every two months. Everyone is accountable for safety responsibilities and should become involved in identifying any hazards so that they can be eliminated. Foremost, Chuck wants everyone to understand the JSC safety policy. To date, he is very pleased with the condition of the Lunar facilities. We welcome Chuck and challenge him to help us, as always to keep safety first and up front.

Lunar News 7 Lab Tours

Above: JPL Planetary Protection Team; Darrell Jan, Patricia Beauchamp, Eileen Stansbery, Carl Agee, Ken Nealson and Gary Lofgren.

Above: Tom Enright, Joe Edwards, Dale Holran, Dan Silberman, and Scott Stewart.

Above: MSHARP Committee Inspection Tour; Jim Papike, Ben Clark, Don DeVincenzi, Don Bogard, Mike Carr, Doug Blanchard, Gary Lofgren, Mark Adler, and Tommy Thompson.

Above: 1998 summer student interns.

8 Lunar News duties with Johnson Controls, Northrop Services, Inc., Syscom, Inc., as well as Lockheed Martin.

Rita is a loving wife, mother of eight wonderful adult children and grandmother of eleven beautiful children. She also has many step-children and step- grandchildren. She retired to spend more time caring for her Ed and Merle Cornitius husband, Julio who is retired from Southern Pacific Railroad Another milestone has been made in the lives of our Curatorial after 39 years of dedicated personnel. Now, Ed Cornitius has service as a foreman. officially entered among the “elitist” who without During her “off work” time, Rita consideration of a time clock or is a collector of “elephants”, watch, has “extra” moments for crochets and make photo doing “extra” things. After 30 albums. She and Julio years of service at NASA-JSC, Ed participates in lots of community is totally in charge of what he will We'll Miss You, Rita! activities for the betterment of be doing (except for whatever their neighborhood, as well as Merle says). Ed was born here in Houston. Rita Sosa, our friend and the city of Houston. They have, He then began his career in private Contamination Control many times, accepted children industry with Northrop Services Technician for many years, has without places to live into their at JSC (later to become Lockheed retired from Lockheed Martin. home until they finished school Martin). He worked first as a Lunar Rita, who played a hypercritical or until they find other Sample Processor and has many role in the Lunar Curatorial residences. They also aid school untold stories of the days of lunar Laboratories, spent many years children by assisting in sample return. Later he worked as keeping all of us in shape and purchasing school supplies, a Engineer-Supervisor for the the laboratories contamination clothing and food. Training Operations Group of the Curatorial free. Her duties included and educating our youth is very Facilities. Some of his duties have included: Laboratory Technician upkeep of the Lunar Sample important to Rita. She also is in the Lunar Receiving Facility (Pristine and Return considered an angel by the Laboratories (documented and Sample Laboratories), Meteorite patients in her neighborhood prepared lunar samples for Laboratory, Cosmic Dust and dialysis center. She is certainly scientific investigation), Foils Laboratories, Final Clean a compassionate, charitable Supervisor of the Lunar Laboratory and others. She also humanitarian. Laboratories, Supervisor of assisted with laboratory tours, Operations (maintenance and film crews and other aspects of We will miss Rita’s smile, wit, laboratory operations), Safety curation. Her work has been and professionalism. She has a Officer and many other. commended by the NASA way of making you smile and His expertise and years of knowledge will certainly be management, dignitaries, laugh whenever you are in her missed. Ed and Merle plan on scientists, coworkers and all who presence. She says laughter is traveling and doing many other experienced the facilities. cleansing for the soul. We hope things of interest that have been Throughout Rita’s service, the all the best for Rita and her delayed for years. We hope the 25 years at NASA-JSC entailed family in the coming years. very best for you both.

Lunar News 9 Revised: February 1998 How to Request Lunar Samples

NASA policies define lunar directly pertain to the specific (step A) should be attached to the samples as a limited national sample requested. sample request. Each new investi- resource and future heritage and gator should also submit a résumé. require that samples be released B. The investigator submits a Investigators proposing the only for approved applications in written request specifying the application of new analytical research, education, and public numbers, types, and quantities of methodologies (not previously display. To meet that responsibil- lunar samples needed as well as applied to lunar samples) also ity, NASA carefully screens all the planned use of the samples. should submit test data obtained sample requests with most of the For planetary science studies, the for simulated lunar materials. New review processes being focused at sample request should be submit- investigators who are not familiar the Johnson Space Center (JSC). ted directly to the Lunar Sample with lunar materials should consult Individuals requesting a lunar Curator at the following address: Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide sample should follow the steps to the Moon (G. Heiken, D. given below for the appropriate Dr. Gary Lofgren Vaniman, and B. M. French, Eds.; category of sample. SN2/Lunar Sample Cambridge University Press, 736 Curator pp.; 1991; ISBN 0-521-33444-6) as NASA/Johnson Space Center the best available reference on the 1. RESEARCH SAMPLES Houston, TX 77058-3696 chemical and physical properties of (including thin sections) USA lunar materials. Telephone: (281) 483-6187 Investigators with access to the Fax: (281) 483-5347 World Wide Web on the Internet also can find updated information NASA provides lunar rock, at the following URL: http://www- soil, and regolith-core samples for For engineering and resource- sn.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/curator.htm. both destructive and non-destruc- utilization studies, the sample The home page cited above tive analysis in pursuit of new request should be submitted to the provides links to sample databases scientific knowledge. Requests are Lunar Simulant Curator at the and other information of use to considered for both basic studies in following address: sample requestors. planetary science and applied studies in lunar materials Dr. Douglas W. Ming C. The Lunar Sample beneficiation and resource utiliza- SN4/Lunar Simulant Curator Curator will research the avail- tion. NASA/Johnson Space Center Houston, TX 77058-3696 ability of the requested samples and decide whether a unilateral A. The sample investigator USA action can be taken or an outside demonstrates favorable scientific Telephone: (281) 483-5839 scientific review is required. peer review of the proposed work Fax: (281) 483-5347 Outside review is prescribed for all involving lunar samples. The new investigators and for most required peer review can be The Lunar Simulant Curator established investigators except demonstrated in either of two will assure that all necessary where returned (previously used) ways: (1) A formal research demonstration tests with simulated samples are being requested. For proposal recommended by NASA's lunar materials have been satisfac- outside review, the Curator Lunar and Planetary Geosciences torily completed. Requests forwards the original request, with Review Panel (LPGRP) or an determined to be sufficiently background information, to the equivalent scientific peer-review mature to warrant consideration for Curation and Analysis Planning panel, within the past three years; use of lunar materials will then be Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (2) Submittal of reprints of scien- forwarded to the Lunar Sample (CAPTEM), a standing committee tific articles, as published in peer- Curator. of scientists who advise NASA on reviewed professional journals that For new investigators, tangible evidence of favorable peer review

10 Lunar News the care and use of lunar samples. CAPTEM checks for favorable peer 3. EDUCATIONAL review (step A) and appropriate SAMPLES sample selection (step B). (disks and educational thin sections) D. Given CAPTEM endorse- ment and concurrence by NASA Headquarters, the Lunar Sample A. Disks Curator will prepare a Lunar Small samples of representa- Sample Loan Agreement for tive lunar rocks and soils, embed- signature by the investigator’s ded in rugged acrylic disks suitable institution. The agreement for classroom use, are made includes a simple security plan that 2. PUBLIC DISPLAY available for short-term loan to prescribes precautions to minimize SAMPLES qualified school teachers. Each prospects for theft or unauthorized teacher must become a certified use of lunar samples. user of the disks through a brief NASA provides for a limited training program prior to receiving E. Upon receipt of the number of rock samples to be used a disk. Educational sample disks properly executed loan for either short-term and long-term are distributed on a regional basis agreement, the Lunar Sample displays at museums, planetariums, from NASA field centers located Curator prepares the authorized expositions, or professional events across the . For samples and sends them to the that are open to the public. further details, prospective investigator. Quantities less than Requests for such display samples requestors should contact the 10 grams can be sent directly by U. are administratively handled by the nearest NASA facility as follows: S. registered mail to domestic JSC Public Affairs Office (PAO). investigators. Shipments to Requestors located in the United IF YOU LIVE IN: foreign investigators are sent by States should apply in writing to Alaska Nevada U. S. diplomatic pouch mail to the the following address: Arizona Oregon American embassy nearest the California Utah requestor’s location. Quantities Mr. Boyd E. Mounce Hawaii Washington larger than 10 grams must be hand- Lunar Sample Specialist Idaho Wyoming carried by the investigator or his/ AP4/Public Services Branch Montana her representative. NASA/Johnson Space Center Houston, TX 77058-3696 NASA Teacher Resource Center F. Continuation as a Lunar Telephone: (281) 483-8623 Mail Stop T12-A Sample Investigator. An Fax: (281) 483-4876 NASA investigator's privilege for reten- Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 tion and use of lunar samples is Mr. Mounce will advise Phone: (415) 604-3574 contingent upon continued good successful applicants regarding standing with the Office of the provisions for receipt, display, and IF YOU LIVE IN: Curator. The investigator will return of the samples. All loans Connecticut New Hampshire remain in good standing by will be preceded by a signed loan Delaware New Jersey fulfilling the following obliga- agreement executed between New York Maine tions: (1) Maintenance of, and NASA and the requestor’s Pennsylvania Maryland adherence to, the lunar sample loan organization. Mr. Mounce will Rhode Island agreement and security plan; (2) coordinate the preparation of new Vermont Timely cooperation with annual display samples with the Lunar District of Columbia lunar sample inventory; (3) Timely Sample Curator. cooperation with sample recalls. NASA Teacher Resource Laboratory Mail Code 130.3 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 Phone: (301) 286-8570

Lunar News 11 IF YOU LIVE IN: South Carolina NASA Teacher Resource Center Colorado North Dakota Virginia for Marshall Space Flight Center Kansas Oklahoma West Virginia U.S. Space and Rocket Center Nebraska South Dakota P.O. Box 070015 New Texas NASA Teacher Resource Center Huntsville, AL 35807-7015 for Phone: (205) 544-5812 NASA Teacher Resource Room Virginia Air and Space Center Mail Code AP-4 600 Settler's Landing Road IF YOU LIVE IN: NASA Johnson Space Center Hampton, VA 23669-4033 Mississippi Houston, TX 77058-3696 Phone: (804) 727-0900 x757 Phone: (281) 483-8696 NASA Teacher Resource Center IF YOU LIVE IN: Building 1200 IF YOU LIVE IN: llinois Minnesota NASA John C. Stennis Space Florida Indiana Ohio Center Georgia Michigan Wisconsin , MS 39529- 6000 Virgin Islands NASA Teacher Resource Center Phone: (601) 688-3338 Mail Stop 8-1 NASA Educators Resource NASA Lewis Research Center Laborarory 21000 Brookpark Road B. Thin Sections Mail Code ERL Cleveland, OH 44135-3191 NASA prepared thin sections NASA Phone: (216) 433-2017 of representative lunar rocks on Kennedy Space Center, FL rectangular 1 x 2-inch glass slides, 32899-0001 IF YOU LIVE IN: with special safety frames, that are Phone: (407) 867-4090 Alabama Louisiana suitable for use in college and Arkansas Missouri university courses in petrology and IF YOU LIVE IN: Iowa Tennessee microscopic petrography for Kentucky advanced geology students. Each North Carolina set of 12 slides is accompanied by a sample disk (described above) and teaching materials. The typical loan period is two weeks, including round-trip shipping time. Each requestor must apply in writing, on college or university letterhead, to the following address:

SN2/Lunar Sample Curator NASA/Johnson Space Center Houston, TX 77058-3696 Telephone: (281) 483-6187 Fax: (281) 483-5347

For each approved user, the Curator will prepare a loan agreement to be executed between NASA and the requestor’s institution prior to shipment of the thin-section package. ❑

12 Lunar News Accessing the JSC SN2 Curatorial Databases

The curatorial databases may be accessed as follows:

Via INTERNET 1) Type TELNET 139.169.126.35 or TELNET CURATE.JSC.NASA.GOV. 2) Type PMPUBLIC at the USERNAME: prompt.

Via WWW 1) Using a Web browser, such as Netscape, open URL http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov 2) Activate the Curatorial Databases link.

For problems or additional information, you may contact: Claire Dardano, Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems and Services, (281) 483-5329, [email protected].

Visit the Curator's home page by opening the URL http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov

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