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Piece of the Moon for Sale

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-an-expensive-piece-of-rock dept.

Symon Gold writes "A desk set purportedly containing a piece of moon rock is up for auction at Lelands.com. Listing here. The New York Times (free registration required) has a story about the piece--a retirement gift given to Joe Healy, an engineer at NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory who worked on the Apollo missions and who died a decade ago. The auction runs until 9 p.m. on December 4th with an opening bid of $50,000."

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  1. Waste Of Money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict that within 10 years Wal-Mart will carry moon rocks imported from the Chinese, who will have a mine on the moon by then and bring rock back by the ton. Get ready for "pet moon rocks" and "moon mood rings" on the shopping channel too.

  2. I presume, and so can you... by baileytal · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the description at the auction site:
    Molded into the [moon-rock shaped blob of] resin are presumably the tiny fragments and flecks found on the bottom of the Apollo 11 "rock boxes."
    Yeah, $50k USD for a blob of resin with some "presumable" tiny fragments of moon rock.

    To be fair, I think it would be fair to pay with 50 "presumable" $1000 bills encased in a big blob of resin shaped like a sucker.

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