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NEWS ABOUT: moon rock

moon rock stories: 3 news summaries

Dutch Museum's 'Moon Rock' an Out-of-This-World Fake

Gift from NASA is just petrified wood, tests reveal

Aug 28, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A “moon rock” exhibited at the Dutch national museum is actually petrified wood, the BBC reports. The three Apollo 11 astronauts gave the object to former PM Willem Drees on a tour following their 1969 moon mission; NASA shared similar artifacts with more than 100 other countries. The purported... More »

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NASA • museum • Netherlands • moon • Holland • hoax • moon rock • Rijksmuseum • petrified wood

 Water Found in Moon Rock 

Discovery stuns lunar experts

Jul 10, 08 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Water has been detected in moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts, reports Space.com. A team used a new super-sensitive technique to discover the water in volcanic glass beads in the rock. The stunning find, detailed in the journal Nature, is forcing scientists to rethink theories about the... More »

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NASA • Johns Hopkins University • moon • Apollo missions • moon colonization • moon rock • Southwest Research Institute • Carnegie Institution

 Moon Rocks Still Giving Up Gritty Secrets

Lunar rocks have helped unlock secrets of solar system, demise of dinosaurs

Jul 8, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Almost 40 years after Apollo astronauts brought samples of the moon back to Earth, the extraterrestrial rocks are still yielding new information, the New York Times reports. In addition to attention from the Johnson Space Center, where they reside, samples are mailed out—on loan only, and usually less than... More »

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geology • solar system • moon • Apollo missions • lunar exploration • crater • moon rock

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