Lunar - Moon Rock/Stone in Apollo 11 Gold Plated Pin

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Lunar - Moon Rock/Stone in Apollo 11 Gold Plated Pin:
$999.00

So this pin was just handed down to me several years ago as part of an estate. The story is that my Uncle, John Mangham, built a gasket that was used on the Apollo 11 mission. Once the mission was successful, NASA had a gala for many of the contractors that built something crucial to the mission. At this party they gave acertainnumber of these pins to specific contractors. My Uncle being one of them. He has a history of Engineering. Linkbelow, but in the mid-1950s he builtthe “Texas Ceegar,” a Triumph-powered, methanol-fueled motorcycle with a streamlined body shellthat at the time held the world record for speed. I had this tested through the Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado (I don\'t have any correspondenceunfortunately) and all they stated was that it was probably the following:
feldspar - A group of alumino-silicate minerals; common in the crusts of the Earth and Moon.
Or that it also could be:
plagioclase - A form of feldspar; a calcium-sodium alumino-silicate [(CaAl,NaSi)AlSi2O8].
Apparently only four minerals - plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, olivine, and ilmenite - account for 98-99% of the crystalline material of the lunar crust. To really test if this is a lunar rock costs thousands of dollars. I have been told in the family that this story is valid and this is truly a lunar stone in this pin. Happy