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Old November 28th 03, 03:36 PM
Davoud
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Default Moon Rock Desk Set: Place Your Bids for This (possibly) Historic Item Now!

Ed Majden:
Don't get sucked in folks. Any legit Moon rock sample is the property
of NASA and the U.S. Government [sic]. A similar situation occured at an auction
a few years ago and the sample was confiscated.


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Considering its provenance, the bits of dust in question may well have
come from the Moon on an Apollo spacecraft. Not that I'll be bidding --
I am surrounded by vast quantities of material that was actually made
billions of years ago in the centers of stars, so a mere trace of moon
dust holds little interest for me.

And there are some legal bits of the moon floating around -- returned
by Russian spacecraft. These bits are not the property of the U.S.
government.

Davoud

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