the no moon landing nutters will love this!

[strollingbones]

'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood


AMSTERDAM – It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.

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 fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."

The museum acquired the rock after the death of former Prime Minister Willem Drees in 1988. Drees received it as a private gift on Oct. 9, 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf during a visit by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, part of their "Giant Leap" goodwill tour after the first moon landing.

'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood - Yahoo! News

 

[Jay Canuck]

did that crazy bunch from Oceans 14 steal it and then replace it with petrified wood?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

NASA could teach the CIA how to lie

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAp2Ni9frJE[/ame]

 

[Jay Canuck]

seriously though.....why would NASA hand them a chunk of pertrified shit and then when it's discovered not expect people to wonder?

 

[Truthmatters]

I think maybe the real moon rocks were a little too precious to hand over to some PM as a gift.

 

[kwc57]

seriously though.....why would NASA hand them a chunk of pertrified shit and then when it's discovered not expect people to wonder?

No, not petrified SHIT.........petrified WOOD. If you're shitting wood, you need to consult a physician.

 

[Jay Canuck]

Kind of like giving your gal a Cubic Zirconia and then just waiting for the day she realizes....