[Rockhounds] Moon Rocks for Sale

[Linda St-Cyr]

Thank you, Axel, that is SO interesting!  Maybe we should do a crowd funding
project to send you to the moon with your UV lamps? 

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Hi Kreigh

Unless these rocks are fluorescent, I would not pay big bucks for them. If
they were, however, I would regret the lack of big bucks in my bank account.
Minerals of lunar origin would fluoresce quite differently from their
earthly counterparts. This is mostly due to the lower oxidation states that
activators are likely to be in. 
The Lanthanide series elements would mostly be in divalent state, rather
than trivalent state as we find them on earth. Trivalent iron would be much
rarer than divalent iron... So lunar feldspars are much more likely to
fluoresce blue (Eu2+) than cherry red (Fe3+).

Cheers Axel
 

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Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] Moon Rocks for Sale

Have you ever wanted to own a piece of the moon? Now might be your chance,
if you have a million bucks lying around. Next month Sotheby's in New York
will auction off some of the only moon rocks that can be legally owned by
private individuals.


https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/real-moon-rocks-go-up-for-auction-in-new-yor
k-expected-1830092539
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