Big Muley
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big-muley-188-12315728
title:
Big Muley
text:
Lunar Sample 61016, better known as "Big Muley", is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in the Descartes Highlands, on the rim of Plum crater, near Flag crater. It is the largest sample returned from the Moon as part of the Apollo program. The rock, an 11.7 kg (26 lb) breccia consisting mainly of shocked anorthosite attached to a fragment of troctolitic "melt rock", is named after Bill Muehlberger, the Apollo 16 field geology team leader. Big Muley is current
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Largest lunar rock collected during the Apollo program
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muley
date created:
2011-09-04T17:50:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T21:18:12Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16