Wht has happened to Nasa's missing Moon rocks?
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.... لقد كذبوا وقالوا انهم وصلوا للقمر. بعد العودة ( المزعومة ) من القمر قامت ناسا في توزيع حجارة قمرية قالوا انهم جائوا بها من القمر وقاموا باهداء هذه الحجارة لعدة شخصيات مهمة وحكام دول 135 دولة وال 50 ولاية اميركية كهدية تذكارية وقد تبين بعد الفحص ان هذه الحجارة ليست الا خشب متحجر مصدره ارضي ....
... وهذا مقال من عام 2009 عن الحجر القمري الذي اهداء نيل ارسمترونج وبوز الدرين لرئيس الوزراء الهولاندي عام 1969، تبين انه مزيف:
... وهذا مقال من عام 2012 يبين ان هذه الحجارة معظمها اختفى من هذه الدول، ويشك الباحث انها بيعت في السوق السوداء حيث وصلت قيمتها لغاية 5 مليون دولار للحجر الواحد بوزن 1.1 غرام. لسوء حظ المشتري ...
'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake
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A piece of moon rock was given during a goodwill tour by the three apollo 11 astronauts. Photo: Getty Images
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A moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 has turned out to be a fake.
12:12AM BST 29 Aug 2009
Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the
rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered
that the "lunar rock", valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood.
Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation, said the museum would continue to keep the stone as a curiosity.
"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," she said. "We can laugh about it."
The
rock was given to Willem Drees, a former Dutch leader, during a global
tour by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
following their moon mission 50 years ago.
J.
William Middendorf, the former American ambassador to the Netherlands,
made the presentation to Mr Drees and the rock was then donated to the
Rijksmuseum after his death in 1988.
"I do
remember that Drees was very interested in the little piece of stone.
But that it's not real, I don't know anything about that," Mr Middendorf
said.
Nasa gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in 1969 and the 1970s.
The United States Embassy in The Hague is carrying out an investigation into the affair.
Researchers Amsterdam's Free University were able to tell at a glance that the rock was unlikely to be from the moon, a conclusion that was borne out by tests.
Nasa gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in 1969 and the 1970s.
The United States Embassy in The Hague is carrying out an investigation into the affair.
Researchers Amsterdam's Free University were able to tell at a glance that the rock was unlikely to be from the moon, a conclusion that was borne out by tests.
"It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone," said Frank Beunk, a geologist involved in the investigation.
(c) telegraph co uk
Towards the end
of the Apollo 17 mission on 13 December 1972, Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt - the last men to have set foot on the Moon - picked up a rock.
Cernan announced: "We'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world."
His wish was fulfilled.
President Richard Nixon ordered that the brick-sized rock be broken up into fragments and sent to 135 foreign heads of state and the 50 US states.
Each "goodwill Moon rock" was encased in a lucite ball and mounted on a wooden plaque with the recipient nations' flag attached.
Moon rock collected during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was also distributed to the same nations and US states.
There were 370 pieces gathered for this purpose from the two missions. Two hundred and seventy were given to nations of the world and 100 to the 50 US states.
But 184 of these are lost, stolen or unaccounted for - 160 around the world and 24 in the US.
The rocks were distributed to countries ranging from Afghanistan to Trinidad and Tobago.
"Gaddafi's government was given two Moon rocks - they're missing. Romania is missing its Apollo 17 goodwill Moon rock," says Joseph Gutheinz Jr, the Texas-based lawyer and former Nasa agent, who has become known as the "Moon rock hunter".
His obsession began in 1998 when - still at Nasa - he set up an undercover sting operation called Operation Lunar Eclipse.
He placed an advert entitled "Moon Rocks Wanted" in USA Today, to entice con-artists selling bogus Moon rocks to approach him.
"What I did not anticipate was that a person with the real thing, the Honduras goodwill Moon rock, would call me," he says.
The rock - which weighed 1.142g - was offered to Gutheinz for $5m (£3m).
He did not pay the money, but says the asking price was reasonable.
These valuable rocks are not being protected as well as they could be, he says, and both Nasa and the recipient nations have done a poor job of entering them into an inventory system.
He says the only authorised sale of lunar material that he is aware of was in 1993, when the Russian government sold material gathered from the Soviet Union's Luna 16 mission at Sotheby's auction house in New York.
An anonymous private collector bought 0.2g of lunar dust for $442,500 (£280,000).
With potential prices in this range, it is no surprise there is a lucrative black market in moon rocks, both real and fake.
Mr Gutheinz says a woman in California allegedly tried to sell a Moon rock online, and that attempts to sell Spain's and Cyprus's moon rocks have been well documented.
"I once offered $10,000 for the recovery of Malta's stolen Apollo 17 goodwill Moon rock but it still hasn't been recovered," he says.
"I know for certain that this was an amateur thief as he only took the rocks, and not the self-authenticating plaque."
Some Moon rocks have gone astray at times of revolution or political transition. The US national archives show that a rock was presented to the late Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, but Gutheinz believes it was sold after his execution.
Then there is the mysterious tale of how - after a fire at an observatory in Dublin - Ireland's Apollo 11 Moon rock ended up lying in a rubbish dump, after apparently being thrown out with the rest of the debris.
"It's still there under a couple of tonnes of trash. That could definitely be worth over $5m (£3.1m). I'll tell you where it's at. It's in the Finglas landfill dump in Dublin," Gutheinz says.
Because of the scale of the task he has challenged his students at the University of Phoenix and Alvin Community College in Texas - where he teaches criminal justice - to help find the missing rocks.
So far, they have helped to track down 77, including those that were given to the governors of the US states of Colorado, Missouri and West Virginia.
Dr Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at Brown
University, Rhode Island, says the knowledge gained from these tiny
rocks is priceless.
"I am continually awed when I work with four-billion-year-old lunar samples. They are beautiful and don't have ugly weathering products often seen in Earth rocks.
"The lunar rocks retain a record of events in the early solar system that we cannot obtain elsewhere."
While Joseph Gutheinz has compared them to works of art, not everyone is so enthusiastic about them. London-based art writer and curator, Francesca Gavin, describes them as "ugly little things", although she is not opposed to the idea of seeing one in an art gallery.
"Moon rocks could be seen as artworks - relating in particular to the Chinese tradition of the Philosopher Stones as naturally occurring artworks reflecting the universe in microcosmic form," she says.
Gavin does not think the rocks are worth $5m (£3.1m), however, and questions the way they are mounted as goodwill gifts.
"The brown plaque, text and flag? It's pretty uneasy on the eyes."
Gutheinz concedes he will never be able to recover all of the missing Moon rocks - many are now in private collections - but says there are some he particularly wants back.
"Definitely the Malta Moon rock. I'd really like to see that back, and the Romanian rock. If I go to Europe, I will hunt that one down. I have a few ideas as to how I'll do that.
"And I love the story about the Ireland Moon rock - that pot of gold under a dump."
(c) bbc magazine
(c) telegraph co uk
The US space agency Nasa recently
announced that many of the Moon rocks brought back to Earth from two
Apollo space missions have gone missing. They were given as gifts to the
nations of the world. So what happened to them?
Cernan announced: "We'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world."
His wish was fulfilled.
President Richard Nixon ordered that the brick-sized rock be broken up into fragments and sent to 135 foreign heads of state and the 50 US states.
Each "goodwill Moon rock" was encased in a lucite ball and mounted on a wooden plaque with the recipient nations' flag attached.
Moon rock collected during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was also distributed to the same nations and US states.
There were 370 pieces gathered for this purpose from the two missions. Two hundred and seventy were given to nations of the world and 100 to the 50 US states.
But 184 of these are lost, stolen or unaccounted for - 160 around the world and 24 in the US.
The rocks were distributed to countries ranging from Afghanistan to Trinidad and Tobago.
"Gaddafi's government was given two Moon rocks - they're missing. Romania is missing its Apollo 17 goodwill Moon rock," says Joseph Gutheinz Jr, the Texas-based lawyer and former Nasa agent, who has become known as the "Moon rock hunter".
His obsession began in 1998 when - still at Nasa - he set up an undercover sting operation called Operation Lunar Eclipse.
He placed an advert entitled "Moon Rocks Wanted" in USA Today, to entice con-artists selling bogus Moon rocks to approach him.
"What I did not anticipate was that a person with the real thing, the Honduras goodwill Moon rock, would call me," he says.
The rock - which weighed 1.142g - was offered to Gutheinz for $5m (£3m).
He did not pay the money, but says the asking price was reasonable.
These valuable rocks are not being protected as well as they could be, he says, and both Nasa and the recipient nations have done a poor job of entering them into an inventory system.
He says the only authorised sale of lunar material that he is aware of was in 1993, when the Russian government sold material gathered from the Soviet Union's Luna 16 mission at Sotheby's auction house in New York.
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| Joseph Gutheinz's search for the missing Moon rocks began in 1998 |
An anonymous private collector bought 0.2g of lunar dust for $442,500 (£280,000).
With potential prices in this range, it is no surprise there is a lucrative black market in moon rocks, both real and fake.
Mr Gutheinz says a woman in California allegedly tried to sell a Moon rock online, and that attempts to sell Spain's and Cyprus's moon rocks have been well documented.
"I once offered $10,000 for the recovery of Malta's stolen Apollo 17 goodwill Moon rock but it still hasn't been recovered," he says.
"I know for certain that this was an amateur thief as he only took the rocks, and not the self-authenticating plaque."
Some Moon rocks have gone astray at times of revolution or political transition. The US national archives show that a rock was presented to the late Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, but Gutheinz believes it was sold after his execution.
Then there is the mysterious tale of how - after a fire at an observatory in Dublin - Ireland's Apollo 11 Moon rock ended up lying in a rubbish dump, after apparently being thrown out with the rest of the debris.
"It's still there under a couple of tonnes of trash. That could definitely be worth over $5m (£3.1m). I'll tell you where it's at. It's in the Finglas landfill dump in Dublin," Gutheinz says.
Because of the scale of the task he has challenged his students at the University of Phoenix and Alvin Community College in Texas - where he teaches criminal justice - to help find the missing rocks.
So far, they have helped to track down 77, including those that were given to the governors of the US states of Colorado, Missouri and West Virginia.
 |
| The Honduras Moon rock was recovered in a sting operation |
"I am continually awed when I work with four-billion-year-old lunar samples. They are beautiful and don't have ugly weathering products often seen in Earth rocks.
"The lunar rocks retain a record of events in the early solar system that we cannot obtain elsewhere."
While Joseph Gutheinz has compared them to works of art, not everyone is so enthusiastic about them. London-based art writer and curator, Francesca Gavin, describes them as "ugly little things", although she is not opposed to the idea of seeing one in an art gallery.
"Moon rocks could be seen as artworks - relating in particular to the Chinese tradition of the Philosopher Stones as naturally occurring artworks reflecting the universe in microcosmic form," she says.
Gavin does not think the rocks are worth $5m (£3.1m), however, and questions the way they are mounted as goodwill gifts.
"The brown plaque, text and flag? It's pretty uneasy on the eyes."
Gutheinz concedes he will never be able to recover all of the missing Moon rocks - many are now in private collections - but says there are some he particularly wants back.
"Definitely the Malta Moon rock. I'd really like to see that back, and the Romanian rock. If I go to Europe, I will hunt that one down. I have a few ideas as to how I'll do that.
"And I love the story about the Ireland Moon rock - that pot of gold under a dump."
(c) bbc magazine
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