Saturday, May 21, 2011



Bị bắt vì rao bán đá mặt trăng giá 1,7 triệu USDAn American woman are being questioned in California, because the suspect wanted to sell a rock from the moon for $ 1.7 million. The woman was not identified, was arrested after she had given to investigators of NASA moon rocks in Lake Elsinore. The stone has been recovered, but investigators have not been determined by NASA it is real or fake. The arrest had been planned for months and took place at a restaurant.
A member of the NASA moon rocks. (Photo: NASA)

Deputy Inspector General of NASA, the Gail Robinson, told the Los Angeles Times : "It could be a rock on the moon, but first it needs to be tested." The newspaper quoted Ms Robinson said the woman was detained but not formally arrested.
The moon rock is seen as America's national treasure, and all trade missions are all illegal. Hundreds kg stone was collected from NASA's journey to the moon, mainly by Apollo 15, 16, 17. Many moon stones are used as gifts to give the national government and some U.S. states. But among them, there are still some unidentified stone traces.
In 2002, two burglaries a small amount of moon rocks occurred at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In addition, each case crooks want to sell fake moon rocks. In 2009, a stone was to be taken from the first voyage to the moon by the Apollo 11 manned ships were delivered to the National Museum in the Netherlands. However, test results and then prove it is just a lump of petrified wood.

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