Moon stone

[empirez]

One moonstone that was given to the government of the Netherlands in 1971 has been proved to be a block of wood. The stone was said to be picked on the moon by the first moon expedtion. Some say this will give fuel to moon conspiracy theorists.

[BURNING MAN]

'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood




AMSTERDAM – It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.
The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.

Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."

The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on Oct. 9, 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf during a visit by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, part of their "Giant Leap" goodwill tour after the first moon landing.

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[kidflash2008]

The question should be: Who stole the moon rock? I'm guessing someone sold it to a private collector for a lot of money.

The problem with the shot from the face shield is that the shield itself is curved and will show shadows differently than they really are. The little article did not take that into consideration.