Vanishing moon rocks
China Daily | Updated: 2009-09-15 07:55
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 US 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.
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