'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_not_moon_rock_3" :smile:

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You mean there were once trees growing on the moon?
 
He said it was worth no more than €50 ($70).

Hm, nothing against having a bunch of such worthless stones. Dozen makes a nice lens for my camera :wink:
 
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The museum acquired the rock from ... prime minister Willem Drees . Drees received it as a private gift .. from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf.
Middendorf, .. had gotten it from the U.S. State Department

"Apparently no one thought to doubt it, since it came from the prime minister's collection,"
A politician got it from another politician who got it from the goernment - so nobody doubted it ?
Things must be very different in Dutch politics!
 
turbo-1 said:
$70 for a piece of petrified wood? I must be incredibly wealthy!

You're wealthy? I have an entire hillside and creek bed sprinkled with moon rocks!

IvanRocks.com. Yeah, I like it.
 
Are you they sure that it's petrified wood? Looks more to me like something that would have caused hemorrhoids in a T-Rex.