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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. Re:Moon Shoes by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any buyer paying $1.7 million for a piece of rock that's supposed to be from the moon, but not sold by NASA probably deserves to part with that money.

    B.t.w. as far as I know none of the material collected from the moon is for sale.

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  2. This annoys me somehow by Omnifarious · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The idea that all the moon rock in the world is owned by the US government and any in private hands must therefor be stolen is somehow very annoying to me. Makes me wonder if you could finance a robotic trip to the moon that had the goal of returning 100kg of moonrock and selling it on the open market. Then NASA would have a much harder time proving that people didn't privately own moonrock.

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  3. You can't trust even NASA... by peppepz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently they gave a fake moon rock to the prime minister of the Netherlands a couple of years ago.