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NASA officials decided that Clifford Frondel, professor of Minerology, may have been exposed to what they called "a biological spill" after a researcher discovered a hole in one of the protective plastic gloves used to handle lunar material...
Glen Bowersock, Classics Clifford Frondel, Simon Kuznets. Economics Raymond Paynter. Biology Ezra Vogel. Social Relations
This glass was probably formed from meteor impacts that splattered molten rock across huge distances, Frondel said. These impacts may also send shock waves comparable to those from an atom bomb blast through the lunar soil, melting some particles into a glass...
...team of scientists, including Frondel, ran preliminary tests on the 44 pounds of lunar rock and then decided which specimens to send to each of the 142 investigators here and abroad. Most of the investigators have received about 10 grams of lunar dust so far and will pick up larger chunks of rock within a few weeks...
...Wood and Frondel are analyzing the rock's chemical composition much as they would an earthbound rock's. Barghoorn will use an electron microscope to scan slivers of lunar rock for fossil