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(HOUSTC I SPACE CENTER)--SCIENTISTS SAY ThE MYSTERIOUS BLACK NOON DUST
GAThERED BY THE APOLLO-ELEVEN 'ASTRONAUTS CONTAINS BITS OF GLASS.
'AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN HOUSTON, DR. CLIFF FRONDELL DESCRIBED THE
GLASS AS WONDERE\ TILLY LUSTROUS" AND RANGING IN COLOR FROt DARK f 1ROWN
TO YELLOW AND YELLOW-BROWN. FRONDELL SAID THE GLASS MAY HAVE RAINED
: UN ON THE Do= AFTER . .ZTEOR ItKPACT. ::. Y r a Q-THT.
"MINUTE SPHERES OF GLASS."
THE ANNOUNC EMETT CAME AS THE APOLLO-MOON EXPLORERS -- STILL IN
ISOLATION--CONTINUED REPORTING ON THEIR HISTORY-MAKING FLIGHT.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Moon rock samples], script, July 28, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1139905/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.