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Moon rocks.(TRENDS)(Federal Bureau of Investigation catches person trying to sell the rocks)(Brief article)
There are things space memorabilia collectors would love to own that are not for sale at any price--legally, that is. Most prominent on that list is the 850 pounds of rocks and dust returned to earth by Apollo astronauts in the late 1960s and 1970s.
But federal law forbids the sale of those objects, which were gathered at the cost of billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer wealth. Still, the law hasn't kept some from trying to profit on moon rocks. In 2002, the FBI busted a trio of ...
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