Nice article by Sandhya Ramesh on PRL.
"Ahmedabad moon lab is waiting for Chandrayaan-4 samples. It has already studied Apollo rocks"
Rare images of Apollo mission moon rock samples included.
The Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad is the only other Indian institute, apart from TIFR Mumbai, to work with lunar samples. It’s collaborating with NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, and Japan’s JAXA.
We have Apollo-17 Goodwill Moon rocks at display in Parliament Museum, New Delhi. But it is not open for general public AFAIK.
📷: Himanshu Pandey
And another one displayed at National Museum, New Delhi. Not sure from which mission it is. Could be Apollo-11 ?
📷 u/monachopsis___
Direct: https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/13rgr4b/national_museum_new_delhi_must_visit_for_a_lot_of/
Apollo-11 Moon rocks came to India in 1969 and were displayed to public.
But this report suggests Apollo-11 might be errr missing..
https://web.archive.org/web/20120331162718/http://outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?280382
National Museum told Outlook they didn't have it but then what is it that on display in previous post?? Bad cataloging?
Emailed Robert Pearlman (CollectSpace) and Joseph R. Gutheinz about the National Museum rock and they say it is not the missing Apollo-11 rock India received. Another image from Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_stone_in_Rashtrapati_Bhawan_Museum.jpg
Ohsin
