page_title: Great Scott (lunar sample)
hierarchical_section_title: Great Scott (lunar sample)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lunar sample 15555, also known as Great Scott, in place on the lunar surface at station 9A of the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971. The object at right is the gnomon, for scale. Reduced in resolution by 50% due to blurring.
context_page_description: Lunar Sample 15555, better known as "Great Scott", is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 in the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon. The rock is a 9.614 kg olivine-normative basalt. It is named after mission commander David Scott, and it is the largest sample returned to Earth from the mission, as well as the most intensively studied. It was collected by Scott on the rim of Hadley Rille, at station 9A.
  Great Scott is currently stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. A piece of it is on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Another is on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. A third piece is on display at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain.
  The term Great Scott was in use as soon as the next mission, Apollo 16, because Charlie Duke used the term just before picking up Big Muley. Big Muley is the largest sample returned from the Moon, and Great Scott is the second largest.
context_section_description: Lunar Sample 15555, better known as "Great Scott", is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 in the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon. The rock is a 9.614 kg (21.20 lb) olivine-normative basalt.  It is named after mission commander David Scott, and it is the largest sample returned to Earth from the mission, as well as the most intensively studied.  It was collected by Scott on the rim of Hadley Rille, at station 9A.
  Great Scott is currently stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.  A piece of it is on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.  Another is on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. A third piece is on display at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain.
  The term Great Scott was in use as soon as the next mission, Apollo 16, because Charlie Duke used the term just before picking up Big Muley.  Big Muley is the largest sample (11.7 kg) returned from the Moon, and Great Scott is the second largest.
caption: Great Scott on the lunar surface prior to collection.  The object at right is a gnomon, used for scale.
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