Sorry to bump, but this article was fitting for this thread
Cue to the Conspiracy Theorists
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Conspiracy theorists rejoice: Prized 'moon rock' in Dutch national museum is a fake
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.
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.
It was on show in 2006 and a space expert informed the museum it was unlikely NASA would have given away any moon rocks three months after Apollo returned to Earth.
Researchers from Amsterdam's Free University said they could see at a glance the rock was not from the moon.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090827/K082704AU.html
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