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Anderson, who was a child at the time, claimed to have found the Moon rocks and cleaned them up over the next few years. To clear title to the rocks he filed a lawsuit against the State of Alaska, asking the Court to deem the rocks his sole property. [36] The missing Moon rocks were returned by Anderson as of December 7, 2012. [37]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now ...
A Moon rock known as "NWA 12691", which weighs 13.5 kilograms (30 lb), was found in the Sahara Desert at the Algerian and Mauritanian borders in January 2017, [20] and went on sale for $2.5 million in 2020. [21]
The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks is a 2012 non-fiction book by Joe Kloc, a former contributing editor for Seed Magazine.It describes the efforts of both Joseph Gutheinz, a NASA Office of Inspector General Senior Special Agent turned college professor and his students to locate and find up to 79 missing Apollo 11 and 17 Moon rocks and plaques that the United States government gave away to 135 ...
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It was not until 1983 that evidence of a large impact crater was found, buried beneath the lower part of the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding peninsulas. The first hint was an 8-inch-thick (20 cm) layer of ejecta found in a drilling core taken off Atlantic City, New Jersey , about 170 miles (274 km) to the north.
In 2012 Gutheinz traveled to Buffalo, Texas, to look at an alleged Apollo era Moon rock being sold on EBay for $300,000. [81] [82] Gutheinz has also been critical of NASA's handling of Moon rocks to include loaned Moon rocks and the lack of security some temporary recipients have provided to America's Apollo era lunar samples. [83]
In January 1982, John Schutt, leading an expedition in Antarctica for the ANSMET program, found a meteorite that he recognized to be unusual. Shortly thereafter, the meteorite now called Allan Hills 81005 was sent to Washington, DC, where Smithsonian Institution geochemist Brian Mason recognized that the sample was unlike any other known meteorite and resembled some rocks brought back from the ...