Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:34AM from the dark-side-of-the-moon-rocks dept.

Joe Gutheinz, a former senior investigator for NASA's Office of Inspector General, has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by the US to governments around the world, and put them in a museum. Deadliest Catch Captain Coleman Anderson wants to keep his little piece of the moon. Anderson says he found the rock in the trash mixed with debris following a fire at an Anchorage museum in 1973. He's kept it as a good luck charm ever since. "Our astronauts and their descendants are not permitted to have an Apollo 11-era moon rock to sell for their own enrichment and neither should a private citizen who acquired one in a less-noble manner," Gutheinz said. An Alaskan judge will now decide who legally owns the rock.

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Re:You do realize that the feds aren't suing, righ by Moryath · 2011-07-11 07:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Sadly, your well-informed and informative points will be lost upon the intended target, as the person you responded to is a brain-dead Pee Tardy member who has been programmed to scream "Itz all Obumas fault, that uppity nigger stole the white hous and wants to take mah gunz!"