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Ramsbury Primary School

Moon Day!

Between 1969 and 1972, six manned Apollo missions successfully landed on the moon, allowing the astronauts to collect samples and bring them back for study on Earth. Some of the samples were preserved in acrylic disks and loaned by NASA to the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK. This is the only body that lends out the precious samples. 
Under tight security, Ramsbury Primary School borrowed one of the six boxes that contain both lunar and Martian meteorites, as well as Tektite, and Libyan glass impactite, which is formed when there is enough energy to melt and fuse the surface of desert sand in to glass!

We all held the moon in our hands! Using magnifying glasses and magnets the children looked at the properties of the lunar rocks.