Chronology Of Items Found On The Moon
Mary Soon Lee
June 13, 1973 (Apollo 18)
a tetrahedron made of technetium.
February 12, 1979 (Apollo 28)
a cube made of curium.
November 18, 1983 (Soyuz 84)
an octahedron made of neptunium;
a windup musical box
engineered to perform
paired polytempic melodies.
December 15, 1985 (Apollo 63)
a dodecahedron made of diamond;
a twisted strand of copper.
November 17, 1990 (Shuguang 16)
an icosahedron made of element 164;
an astronomical clock
displaying the positions
of the Earth, Moon, Sun, Saturn.
February 21, 1991 (Soyuz 179)
a sphere made from nanotubes;
bootprints.
January 20, 2003 (Mwezi 3)
two fossils:
one of a human child’s hand,
one of a six-clawed inhuman appendage.
December 17, 2011 (Tsukuyomi 14)
a four-dimensional tesseract;
one thousand origami cranes.
July 20, 2019 (Apollo 211)
the first doorway.
