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New Jersey looks for missing moon-rock sample

John Reitmeyer The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 11:47am

TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey is asking hundreds of state officials who worked under Gov. Brendan T. Byrne to help the effort to track down a 35-year-old moon rock sample missing from Trenton.

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NASA moon rock bust may be a bust

Sarah Burge The Press-Enterprise

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 3:35pm

When NASA agents swooped into a Denny's restaurant in Lake Elsinore, Calif., earlier this year, authorities said they seized a purported "moon rock" from a woman who had been trying to sell it for $1.7 million.

What they didn't mention: The woman was a 4-foot-11, 74-year-old grandmother who, along with her now-deceased husband, had worked at North American Rockwell, a NASA contractor during the space program's early years.

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