Provides clues to solar system origin
Scientists find no evidence of moon life
HOUSTON (UPI) — Scientists who studied the Apollo 11 lunar rocks said Thursday the moon is like "a cinder," made up of material formed at very high temperatures and devoid of any trace of life.
A panel of high-ranking researchers said the key point to emerge from detailed studies of the first lunar rocks and soil returned to earth was that the moon offers a way to "roll back" the curtain and expose an ancient, hidden chapter in the history of the solar system.
Scientists attending the first conference on detailed experiments conducted on the Apollo 11 lunar samples said their findings shed little light on where the moon came from or exactly how it formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
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"The essence of a lot of this work is that the moon is a cinder," said Dr. Paul Gast of Columbia University. "It is without water and low ir lements that would have been driven off by seering temperatures that created the molten lava from which the rocks crystalized."
The panel discussion highlighted the last day of a conference at which 142 scientists from the United States and other countries made public the information they pried from the Apollo 11 lunar samples.
In another session Thursday, Dr. E. E. Barghoorn, a Harvard biologist, drawing one of the few
King birthday a holiday
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two dozen congressmen, including two members of the Missouri delegation, Thursday urged the nation's mayors to launch a movement to have the Jan. 15 birthdate of the late Martin Luther King Jr., declared a holiday.
The Negro civil rights leader was slain by an assassin in 1968
was sainted by an assassin in 1808. In letters to more than 65 mayors of large and medium-sized cities across the country the congressmen urged that local commemorations be planned for next Thursday.
Other scientists who examined the lunar material chemically said they found traces of carbon in it, but agreed there was no evidence of life.
conclusions from Apollo 11 rock studies that won wide acceptance from colleagues, said he believes the upper crust of the moon "has always been devoid of life."
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