Record

RefNoMS/926/1/7
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of the Royal Society Allocation Committee for Soviet Lunar Samples, of Colin Pillinger and Geoffrey Eglinton
Date1972
DescriptionLargely comprises typescript minutes, some of which have been annotated by Colin Pillinger and Geoffrey Eglinton. Some minutes are marked 'draft' and one has rough manuscript minutes attached including information on suggested UK investigators. It is not known if this is a complete set of minutes for all meetings of the committee in 1972.

File also contains administrative correspondence regarding commitee meetings with secretaries of the Royal Society: D C Martin and Wigley.

The minutes for the Meeting of 20 November 1972 incude extensive supporting documents:
'Preliminary Data on Lunar Soil Obtained by Automatic Station 'Luna 20'' by A P Vinogradov, English translation from the original Russian by Jean Agrell
Copy of allocation document issued to Principal Investogators of US Luna 16 samples by NASA's Manned Spacecrat Center, 8 July 1971
Copy of allocation document issued to Principal Investogators of US Luna 20 samples by NASA's Manned Spacecrat Center, 19 June 1972
Completed sample handling requirements questionnaires from: Stuart Agrell (includes appended proposal for investigation of samples, Saeed Durrani, M J O'Hara, D W Collinson (with appended proposal for investigation of magnetic properties), Grenville Turner (with appended separation scheme), S H U Bowie (with proposed preparation information)
Proposed luar sample separation scheme
Correspondence regarding allocation of samples with The University of Birmingham, , University of Technology Loughborough, The University of Manchester INstitute of Science and Technology, The University of Leeds School of Chemistry
Summary of Eglinton's discussions with LSAPT 1 November 1972 with hand drawn LSAPT scheme for Luna 16 and 20 (photocopy)
Details of United Kingdom Principal Investigators
Extent1 folder
FormatTypescript
Photocopy
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionloose papers
AccessStatusOpen
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