Great Scott (lunar sample)

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.

[1] It was collected by Scott on the rim of Hadley Rille, at station 9A.

[2] Great Scott is currently stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Pieces of it are on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, the Tellus Science Museum in the state of Georgia, the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain, the LROC Lunar Exploration Museum at Arizona State University[3] and the Science Museum in London, England.

Great Scott on the lunar surface prior to collection. The object at right is a gnomon , used for scale.
Station 9A planimetric map showing the location of Great Scott at 15555. "X" indicates sample locations, 5-digit numbers are LRL sample numbers, the rectangle is lunar rover (dot indicates TV camera), black spots are large rocks, dashed lines are crater rims or other topographic features, and triangles are panorama stations.