What size and weight were the largest moon rocks that were brought back from the apollo missions ?
Tabco
September 15, 2020, 2:04am
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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 (Station 1). 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, ...
Apparently weighs about 26 lbs. Size doesn’t seem to be given, but an image of an astronaut picking it up makes it seem to be a bit smaller than a soccer ball.
Big Bertha and Great Scott are two other large moon rocks, around 20 lbs each.
Bullitt
September 15, 2020, 4:07am
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It appears to be about the size of an NFL football.