# Moon rock given to Holland is fake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096 "2014-02-11T22:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/1 "2014-02-11T22:57:36Z")
How does [this](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6105902/Moon-rock-given-to-Holland-by-Neil-Armstrong-and-Buzz-Aldrin-is-fake.html) happen? (I’m thinking someone did a swap when no one was looking.) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/2 "2014-02-11T23:12:32Z")
That’s one small rock for me, one giant leap for mankind. Yoink ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/3 "2014-02-11T23:53:46Z")
That’s going to make fake moon landers very happy. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/4 "2014-02-11T23:57:24Z")
That’s sad. It makes me wonder if those moon rocks I bought off a guy in a Wal-Mart parking lot for $100 are real. I am pretty sure they are because he said Neil Armstrong was his brother in law and he needed the money for some kind of surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/5 "2014-02-11T23:59:12Z")
All the publicly accessible Moon rocks are fake - NASA knows better than to let any _real_ Moon rocks out where werewolves might get their claws on them. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/6 "2014-02-12T00:19:55Z")
Wikipedia has a few details on this 2009 story: [Netherlands lunar sample displays - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_lunar_sample_displays) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/7 "2014-02-12T02:30:30Z")
Thank Og no one’s ever sold fake Berlin Wall rocks. My whole back yard fence is made of them – and no one has escaped over it! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/8 "2014-02-12T02:45:25Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > (I’m thinking someone did a swap when no one was looking.) That occurred to me as well. I wonder if there are pictures of the rock when it was first received. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/9 "2014-02-12T04:07:57Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > All the publicly accessible Moon rocks are fake - NASA knows better than to let any _real_ Moon rocks out where werewolves might get their claws on them. …they’ll leave no stone un-turned? =d&r= ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/10 "2014-02-12T07:45:00Z")
That article was from 2009. It took somebody that long to notice? And the rock was actually petrified wood? How could they NOT notice that? A piece of petrified wood would be immediately recognizable as such, by anyone who has ever seen a rock and a tree. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/11 "2014-02-12T10:05:53Z")
Now they’ll never know what kind of cheese there is there! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-rock-given-to-holland-is-fake/681096/12 "2014-02-12T16:50:58Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Wikipedia has a few details on this 2009 story: [Netherlands lunar sample displays - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_lunar_sample_displays) The photos in the wiki article are far different than the photos in the article in the OP. The wiki article says there are four rocks, all about the size of a grain of rice. The rock in the photo of the first article looks much bigger.