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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM |
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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
On Feb 9, 11:19*am, Frank Galikanokus
wrote: How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny, of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight counts. Maybe. oly |
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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
oly wrote:
On Feb 9, 11:19 am, Frank Galikanokus wrote: How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny, of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight counts. Maybe. oly Ya me too. Not a penny and not copper. JAM |
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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
On 2/9/2012 5:31 PM, Frank Galikanokus wrote:
oly wrote: On Feb 9, 11:19 am, Frank wrote: How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny, of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight counts. Maybe. oly Ya me too. Not a penny and not copper. JAM The 1909 VDB was 95% copper, right? Technically bronze. |
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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
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Frank Galikanokus wrote: oly wrote: On Feb 9, 11:19 am, Frank Galikanokus wrote: How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny, of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. Maybe, to help ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. Also, the zinc cent is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight counts. Maybe. oly Ya me too. Not a penny and not copper. It's apparently a damaged coin as well ... From the article: # The initials ("VDB") of the coin's designer -- Victor David Brenner -- # are etched onto the coin's reverse. On all the VDB's I sell, the initials are raised, not incuse ... -- Ken Barr Numismatics email: P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA 95152 Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc. 408-272-3247 NEXT SHOW: San Jose Coin Club Jan 27 - 29 (table 200) |
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A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet
On Feb 9, 6:31*pm, Ken Barr wrote:
In article , *Frank Galikanokus wrote: oly wrote: On Feb 9, 11:19 am, Frank Galikanokus wrote: How many errors can you find in this article? http://www.space.com/14512-mars-penn...y-cameras.html JAM Well, I would have thought that our non-numismatist NASA scientist and engineer friends would have sent a copper-plated zinc cent (not penny, of course) but maybe somebody did intentionally choose a more chemically-stable bronze (not copper, of course) cent. *Maybe, to help ward off the rigors of the Martian environment. *Also, the zinc cent is lighter than the bronze by about 7/10ths of one gram, and interplanetary travel is a game where every little bit of weight counts. *Maybe. oly Ya me too. Not a penny and not copper. It's apparently a damaged coin as well ... From the article: # The initials ("VDB") of the coin's designer -- Victor David Brenner -- # are etched onto the coin's reverse. On all the VDB's I sell, the initials are raised, not incuse ... -- Ken Barr Numismatics * * * *email: P. O. Box 32541 * * * * * * website: *http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA *95152 * * Coins, currency, exonumia, souvenir cards, etc. 408-272-3247 * * * * * NEXT SHOW: San Jose Coin Club Jan 27 - 29 (table 200)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, gee, a bunch more article way down on the page (I hate how they display pages on the internet). Bronze it is. It might just last until some human gets there to pick it up. Maybe. oly |
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