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. It is named after mission commander David Scott, and it is the largest sample returned to Earth from the mission, as well as the most intensively studied.[1] It was collected by Scott on the rim of Hadley Rille, at station 9A.[2]
The term Great Scott was in use as soon as the next mission, Apollo 16, because Charlie Duke used the term just before picking up Big Muley.[5] Big Muley is the largest sample (11.7 kg) returned from the Moon, and Great Scott is the second largest.
Great Scott in the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility. The dark spot surrounded by a light halo in the center of the sample is a Micrometeoroid impact, or "zap pit."