Online seit: 12. April 2006
The lunar rock that was given to Ireland was placed in Dunsink Observatory for safekeeping. However, the precious stone went missing after a blaze gutted the observatory back in 1977.It’s believed that it may have spent over 30 years as a very pricey piece of rubbish buried with the rest of the debris from the fire across the road in Dunsink landfill.
photo shows a piece of rock that Rafael Navarro, a former Colombian toy manufacturer, contends came from the moon, in Buffalo, Texas. Navarro has placed rock fragments in the accompanying small plastic box for sale on eBay and is seeking $300,000 for them. Joe Gutheinz, a former investigator for NASA who practices law outside Houston, is investigating this claim as he hunts for moon rocks, now-missing samples collected by the dozen American astronauts who walked on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972.