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Article: Moon rocks More precious than diamonds, illegal to own - mysteriously missing around the globe - and there's one on display right across the water in Hampton.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Byline: JOANNE KIMBERLIN
HAMPTON -- By Joanne Kimberlin
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
HAMPTON - You'd probably kick it out of your path. Just a gray ish, charcoal-size lump of lowly rock. Nothing to get worked up about, or even notice.
Fact is, this rock is worth nearly 10 times its weight in top-grade diamonds.
But you can't buy it - at least not legally - no matter how much money you have.
Thirty-three years ago, the last men to walk on the moon plucked it from the lunar surface, wrestled it into their spacecraft and carried it 238,857 dark and frozen miles back to Earth.