For all you conspiracy theorists … Moon Rocks actually are from the Arizona Desert

Posted on Sep 14, 2009 in Records Management News

Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth

By TOBY STERLING (AP) – 23 hours ago

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 Ari­zona instruc­tor and for­mer U.S. gov­ern­ment inves­ti­ga­tor who has made a project of track­ing down the lunar treasures.

The Rijksmu­seum, more noted as a repos­i­tory for 17th cen­tury Dutch paint­ings, announced last month it had had its plum-sized “moon” rock tested, only to dis­cover it was a piece of pet­ri­fied wood, pos­si­bly from Ari­zona. The museum said it inher­ited the rock from the estate of a for­mer prime minister.

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