Lunar Sample 72275, 6
Now on display

Lunar Sample 72275, 6 was collected during the December, 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the moon. The sample was found by Astronaut Gene Cernan at the foot of the South Massif mountain range on the moon during the final Apollo mission. The rock weighs 125 grams, and is a fragment of the original 3,640 gram rock brought back to earth.  This sample is a breccia, a common rock type found in the Lunar highlands.  At 3.9 billion years old, this breccia sample is older than 99.99 % of all earth surface rocks.