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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 28 > That precious moon rock at the Dutch museum? It’s just wood

That precious moon rock at the Dutch museum? It’s just wood

By Toby Sterling / The Bulletin
August 28, 2009

AMSTERDAM " The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.

Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a....

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