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Iowa/NASA Projedct Moon Harvest

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Anyone out there farming in western Iowa in 1964? At that time, NASA put out a call to farmers and 4Hers in six western Iowa counties to be on the lookout for rocks. A rock of terrestrial origin is so rare in those counties NASA figured that any rock found would have to be a meteorite and they figured at least some of them would be lunar in origin. At that time, NASA was trying to get an idea of what the moon's surface was really like before landing a manned spaceship on it. Does anyone remember this and specifically, which counties were involved?
 
Always wondered just how the so called authorities could determine if a rock was a meteorite and where it came from.
 
(quoted from post at 20:58:23 11/26/14) Anyone out there farming in western Iowa in 1964? At that time, NASA put out a call to farmers and 4Hers in six western Iowa counties to be on the lookout for rocks. A rock of terrestrial origin is so rare in those counties NASA figured that any rock found would have to be a meteorite and they figured at least some of them would be lunar in origin. At that time, NASA was trying to get an idea of what the moon's surface was really like before landing a manned spaceship on it. Does anyone remember this and specifically, which counties were involved?
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I'm in northwest Iowa and it seems to me something was mentioned about moon rocks back then but I don't remember if our county was listed or not. I was 13 in 1964, that was 50 years ago! My sis and I did plenty of rock picking but I remember picking up only one rock we called a moon rock because it looked like it had a bad case of acne. Many years later when I was in Idaho I saw millions of tons of old lava that looked like this rock.
 
I grew up in Sioux City and like you, I was 13 years old in 1964. I've been in Idaho for 28 years now and I'm still amazed by all the rock out here! I don't remember hearing about Project Moon Harvest in '64, but Air and Space magazine just published a brief article about it.
 
I can vaguely remember that. I was 10 at the time & we were taking a midafternoon break from baling. (Mom always made sandwich's & cake when we were baling or cutting silage that we would eat about 3:00 kind of a hold over between dinner & supper) & I remember hearing Dad & another guy that Dad hired talking about it. Then after break I & the hired man were riding the hayrack & he was teasing me about looking for rocks.
 
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