18:22 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAn American woman is being questioned in California for allegedly trying to sell a moon rock for $1.7m (\u00a31.05m).<\/p>\n
The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was held in a sting operation when she showed the rock to a Nasa investigator in Lake Elsinore.<\/p>\n
Moon rocks are considered national treasure in the United States and their sale is illegal.<\/p>\n
The rock was recovered but Nasa investigators have not yet determined whether it is genuine.<\/p>\n
The sting operation had been planned for several months and took place at a restaurant.<\/p>\n
Gail Robinson, Nasa’s deputy inspector general, told the Los Angeles Times: “It’s possible this is a moon rock, but it has to be tested first.”<\/p>\n
It quoted Ms Robinson as saying the woman was in custody but had not been formally arrested.<\/p>\n
Many hundreds of kilograms of rock were collected from Nasa missions to the Moon, mainly during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.<\/p>\n
Hundreds were handed out as gifts to foreign nations and US states, and scores of those remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
Two interns stole a small amount of moon rock from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in 2002.<\/p>\n
There have also been a number of cases of attempts to sell fake moon rocks.<\/p>\n
And in 2009, a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11, given to the Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, proved to be nothing more than petrified wood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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