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Where Is The Rock? The Discovery Of Maine's Goodwill Moon Rock ... As a University of Phoenix Criminal Justice graduate student, in my CJA 510, Professor Joseph Gutheinz., Jr assigned his students to investigate the location of Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks. Each graduate student was assigned a journey to hunt the whereabouts of an Apollo 11 or Apollo 17 Moon rock in a state which was presented by NASA. I was excited and confused at the same time but none the less I started the exciting journey in discovering the location of the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock presented to Maine in1973...

Scans From Discovery Taken In Orbit ... The three images below -- and their captions -- are reproduced here courtesy of Neptec. Please note that I slightly modified some parameters of the images such as contrast or brightness because of their reduced sizes...

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)