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By Astrogeology Science Center January 2022 (approx.)
Big Bertha in the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility. Within this rock is an Earth meteorite (lunar sample 14321,1027) that is 4 billion years old.
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Big Bertha in the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility. Within this rock is an Earth meteorite (lunar sample 14321,1027) that is 4 billion years old. Lunar sample 14321, known as Big Bertha, collected at station C1 on the Apollo 14 mission to the moon in 1971.

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NASA - https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.html (direct link).