[FPSPACE] Apollo 11 moonstone Netherlands fake?

[Robert Pearlman]

The location of the only two lunar samples -- one from Apollo 11 and  
one from Apollo 17 -- gifted by the U.S. to The Netherlands is known:  
National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine in Leiden.

A video showing those samples can be found here:
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000770.html

-- 
Robert Pearlman, Editor
collectSPACE - The Source for Space History & Artifacts
http://www.collectspace.com/
Twitter: @robertpearlman | @collectSPACE

On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:41 AM, David R. Woods wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Here is the article and accompanying picture at the Rijksmuseum that  
> Geert is referring to:
>
> http://www.niburu.nl/index.php?articleID=21599
> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/27/article-0-063396B8000005DC-918_468x409.jpg
>
> Dave
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:
> Apollo 11 moonstone Netherlands fake?
> Date:
> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:37:10 +0200
> From:
> Geert Sassen <GES204 at maerskcrew.com>
> To:
> David Portree <dsfportree at hotmail.com>, drwoods  
> <drwoods at stny.rr.com>, jameseoberg <jameseoberg at comcast.net>, bhen <bhen at scarlet.be 
> >, Jaap Terweij <japio at dds.nl>
>
> Good day,
>
> I can't access FPSpace from this account as I'm not at home at this  
> moment (writing from Salalah in the desert of Oman), but there was a
> somewhat weird story in the Dutch newspaper yesterday.
>
> According to the Dutch world-news, geologists of the Dutch Amsterdam  
> University ('Vrije Universiteit')  have been analysing a supposed
> piece of moon rock, which has been for many many years at the Dutch  
> RichsMuseum ('Rijksmuseum'), and according to their analysis this is
> just a piece of fossilised wood, worth less then 50 euro, and  
> certainly not from the moon.
>
> The supposed piece of moonrock was handed over by US Ambassador  
> Middendorf to Dutch prime minister Drees in 1969 when the Apollo 11
> astronauts visited the Netherlands. It his been one of the prime  
> exhibitions at the Dutch Amsterdam Richsmuseum ever afterwards and was
> insured for 100 000 euro.
>
> Unfortunately I haven't got online Internet access from my present  
> location, so I can't check this out any further, but maybe Jaap Terwey
> or any of our other Dutch/Belgium subscribers is at home and has  
> more info on this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert Sassen
> (home email: geert at navtools.nl will automatically forward this  
> present mailaddress)
>
>
>
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