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unusual facts about moon rocks



Pneumoconiosis

In the widely acclaimed Puzzle/Shooter game "Portal 2", former CEO and founder of Aperture Science Laboratories, Cave Johnson, purportedly contracted and died of lunar pneumoconiosis after prolonged exposure to the moon rocks he was using in teleportation technology research.


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Brazil lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Brazil Apollo 11 lunar sample display is unknown.

Canada lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Canadian Apollo 11 goodwill lunar display is unknown.

Honduras lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Honduras Apollo 11 goodwill lunar display is unknown.

Nicaragua lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Nicaragua Apollo 17 lunar sample display is unknown.

Oklahoma History Center

Oklahoma's Apollo 11 Moon Rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock- Rose Niang-Casey, a graduate student at the University of Phoenix, and a participant in the “Moon Rock Project”, was assigned the task of hunting down the Oklahoma Apollo 11 Moon rock and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock; two moon rocks the Nixon Administration gifted to the people of Oklahoma.

Stolen and missing moon rocks

In September 2009, while cooperating with a worldwide hunt for Moon rocks with Associated Press reporter Toby Sterling (Netherlands Bureau) and Cyprus Mail reporter Lucy Millett, the daughter of the British Ambassador to Cyprus, Gutheinz was advised by his friend and space memorabilia expert Robert Pearlman (CollectSpace.com) that Pearlman had learned in 2003 that the Cyprus Goodwill Moon Rock was never presented to Cyprus, but retained by the son of an American diplomat.

The Butterjunk Effect

The Planet Express crew are assigned to return the "stolen" moon rocks from the Apollo missions to the Moon.