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Thread ID: 102907	2009-09-06 06:32:00	'Moon Rock' In Dutch Museum Is Just Petrified Wood	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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807206	2009-09-06 06:32:00	Hey...wanna buy some New York City bridges too? 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. Uh huh! Pass the Dutchie on the left........ (www.usatoday.com)	SurferJoe46 (51)
807207	2009-09-06 07:29:00	So no American set foot on the moon I guess. Another conspiracy possibly.	Sweep (90)
807208	2009-09-06 07:46:00	No it was a ll done somewhere in Nevada the local first peoples were bribed with chocolate money to keep quite about it	gary67 (56)
807209	2009-09-07 01:38:00	So, the photo I took of the "moon rock" at the Seattle Boeing Museum in 2004 is just a pic of fossilized wood too? Hmmm....... got me wondering now! LL	lakewoodlady (103)
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