when it is a piece of wood! the Dutch national museum said today that one of its most prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood, the museum acquired the rock after the death of former prime minister Willem Dreesman in 1988, Dreesman received it as a private gift in 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf who accompanied the Apollo 11 astronauts on a visit to The Netherlands after the first moon landing,
'It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone,' said Geologist Frank Beunk from Amsterdam's Free University, He said he could see at a glance the rock was not from the moon,
so where did the then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf get it from? did he believe it was a moon rock? or was this a hoax? or a did Mr Middendorf have a sense of humour? or have the Dutch found wood on the moon?
Friday, 28 August 2009
Now This Is A Puzzle,
when is a moon rock not a rock?
when it is a piece of wood! the Dutch national museum said today that one of its most prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood, the museum acquired the rock after the death of former prime minister Willem Dreesman in 1988, Dreesman received it as a private gift in 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf who accompanied the Apollo 11 astronauts on a visit to The Netherlands after the first moon landing,
'It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone,' said Geologist Frank Beunk from Amsterdam's Free University, He said he could see at a glance the rock was not from the moon,
so where did the then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf get it from? did he believe it was a moon rock? or was this a hoax? or a did Mr Middendorf have a sense of humour? or have the Dutch found wood on the moon?
when it is a piece of wood! the Dutch national museum said today that one of its most prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood, the museum acquired the rock after the death of former prime minister Willem Dreesman in 1988, Dreesman received it as a private gift in 1969 from then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf who accompanied the Apollo 11 astronauts on a visit to The Netherlands after the first moon landing,
'It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone,' said Geologist Frank Beunk from Amsterdam's Free University, He said he could see at a glance the rock was not from the moon,
so where did the then-U.S. ambassador J. William Middendorf get it from? did he believe it was a moon rock? or was this a hoax? or a did Mr Middendorf have a sense of humour? or have the Dutch found wood on the moon?
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