News Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealed

[Moonwalker]

"A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8226075.stm


In my point of view this is just an advertising gimmick. Because you don't have to be a geologist but just an Apollo fan to realize within seconds, with your naked eye and without any analyses, that the piece for sure is anything but a moon rock. Experts say so for many years already as well. So the museum people should have known. And I think they knew. They keep the piece as a curiosity from the beginning already...

 

[n122vu]

Let the Hoax Believers rejoice.

 

[Dig Gil]

Why would a Dutch Museum held a moon rock anyway?!

 

[garyw]

It's not uncommon that musuems don't display the actual moon rock but display something else that looks like it... seems that these folks can't even fake it properly.

 

[cjp]

I thought this one was given to the museum by the US ambassador. It's a kind of embarrassing for them too I guess.

There is supposed to be another piece of moon rock in Space Expo in the Netherlands (close to the ESTEC testing facilities).

See this page (and especially the video about other pieces somewhere in Leiden):
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000770.html

You can find locations of lunar material here:
http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/displays/displays.cfm