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Article: Moon rocks launch students' imaginations.
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- Connecticut Post
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- May 24, 2007
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Byline: Tony Spinelli
May 24--FAIRFIELD -- It's not every day Casey Walsh gets to look at rocks from the moon, in person.
So she was as amused Wednesday as an 11-year-old fifth-grader could be, when she visited Sacred Heart University with other students from Frenchtown School in Trumbull to see the pieces of lunar landscape provided by the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport.
"I can see crystals," Casey said as she adjusted the lens of an electronic microscope over a plastic tray of thumbnail-size moon rocks in various shades of gray and white.
They are some of the 740 moon relics brought back to Earth by National Aeronautics and Space ...