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You can't own a piece of the moon. Or can you?
21 of 21 from Steve Jurvetson's personal Apollo collection (photos)
It is illegal for private individuals to own moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. This piece of the moon came from a meteorite, which, upon analysis, was determined to be identical in composition to the rocks from one area where an Apollo mission landed. A meteorite must have struck the moon, and fragments from that collision eventually found their way down our gravity well.
Jurvetson says it, like the Earth, is 4.6 billion years old.
February 7, 2012 3:59 AM PST
Photo by: Rafe Needleman/CNET
| Caption by: Rafe Needleman
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