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Article: Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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AMSTERDAM -- Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where
your moon rocks are?
The discovery of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands' national
museum should be a wake-up call for more than 130 countries that
received gifts of lunar rubble from both the Apollo 11 flight in
1969 and Apollo 17 three years later.
Nearly 270 rocks scooped up by U.S. astronauts were given to
foreign countries by the Nixon administration. But according to
experts and research by The Associated Press, the whereabouts of
some of the small rocks are unknown.
"There is no doubt in my mind that many moon rocks are lost or
stolen and now sitting in private collections," said Joseph
Gutheinz, a University of ...