Apollo 17 Catalog Back on Track

We are pleased to announce that the fourth and final volume of the Catalog of Apollo 17 Rocks is well on its way to completion. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of Chuck Meyer, who agreed to serve as the new author, rock descriptions have been compiled for Volume 4 and drafts of the camera-ready page layouts are in progress. In addition, a cumulative index has been compiled to help readers locate rock descriptions, according to rock generic number, in each of the four volumes.

We expect that Volume 4 will be sent to printing in September 1994. Budget permitting, we plan to have printed copies available for mailing by early 1995, if not sooner.

To date, we have shipped copies of Volumes 1-3 to all of our customers who have requested them. If you would like to receive any or all of the volumes, please send a written communication to us by mail, e-mail, or FAX at the corresponding address. Be sure to provide your full mailing address.

To those of you who have asked about electronic versions of the catalog (e.g., CD-ROM platters), we regret that we are currently able to supply only paper copies. Although the Apollo 17 catalog was the first lunar sample catalog to be prepared in a modern desktop publishing environment, we do not have the resources to publish it in a multimedia format.