Sunday, June 06, 2010
Former NASA Investigator Believes Fragment Is Moon Rock
WEST VIRGINIA....
Former NASA investigator now Texas lawyer Joe Gutheinz Jr has challenged his graduate students since 2002 to locate missing moon rocks collected during Apollo 11 and 17 missions and presented to the 50 states and several counties as goodwill gifts. But, based on the description retired Morgantown dentist Robert Conner gave him Friday, Gutheinz is convinced Conner has a real moon fragment in his possession left by his deceased brother. Gutheinz believes the one-gram rock fragment encased in plastic and resting on a wooden plaque that also holds a miniature West Virginia state flag that flew on the Apollo 17 mission was actually presented to the state by NASA during the 1970s. Conner says former Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., who was presented the fragment while in office, and was once affiliated with his brother Troy’s Washington, D.C., law firm, may have given it to his late brother to observe while Moore's intent was for the fragment to end up at the West Virginia University library.
Former NASA investigator now Texas lawyer Joe Gutheinz Jr has challenged his graduate students since 2002 to locate missing moon rocks collected during Apollo 11 and 17 missions and presented to the 50 states and several counties as goodwill gifts. But, based on the description retired Morgantown dentist Robert Conner gave him Friday, Gutheinz is convinced Conner has a real moon fragment in his possession left by his deceased brother. Gutheinz believes the one-gram rock fragment encased in plastic and resting on a wooden plaque that also holds a miniature West Virginia state flag that flew on the Apollo 17 mission was actually presented to the state by NASA during the 1970s. Conner says former Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., who was presented the fragment while in office, and was once affiliated with his brother Troy’s Washington, D.C., law firm, may have given it to his late brother to observe while Moore's intent was for the fragment to end up at the West Virginia University library.
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