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NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock

Posted by timothy on from the it's-her-perfect-right dept.

sgcxf949 writes "Woman attempts to sell a moon rock and gets busted by NASA. Who would have thought that NASA had undercover agents?" Evidently not the subject of this story, who offered to trade her sample of alleged lunar rock for $1.7 million.

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  1. Not *all* moon rock by aepervius · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There are a few ion meteorite and a few ounce from the soviet as the article says : "Outside of lunar meteorites and a few ounces of the moon returned by Soviet robotic probes", but seeing the quantity brought back by human processes, yes 99.99% (a few ounces agaisnt 800+ pounds) is near enough 100%.

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  2. How Pathetic by HansKloss · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dozen of agents arresting a housewife???
    Serious criminals walk on streets and laugh every day. Not to mention many other crimes that go unpunished.

    What we lately read, are only stories about heavily armed forces busting housewives and teenagers. Gross.