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Article: What would you give to own a little chunk of the moon?
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- November 28, 2003
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Kenneth Chang
International Herald Tribune
11-28-2003
The desk set a few pieces of plastic amateurishly glued together is battered and scratched. The pen was snapped off years ago. On the left side is a yellowing blob of epoxy in the shape of a rock. On the right is a small plaque: ''Presented to JOE HEALY From his friends at LRL.'' Cost: at least $50,000, the minimum bid in an Internet auction now under way. This nondescript piece a retirement gift to Healy, an engineer at NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory who worked on the Apollo missions and who died a decade ago is believed to contain some of the rarest material to be found on earth: fragments of the moon. The fragments are small ...
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