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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. Watch out! by JediTrainer · · Score: 2, Troll

    They better have been careful not to have taken that piece off of my land. I've got mineral rights, you know.

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