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...games at Soldiers Field, for goodness’ sake—not Notre Dame, not Florida State. Harvard. The games are rarely sold out, ineffective kickers aren’t booted right off the team and the national press comes once in a blue moon—although the lunar cycle looks to be quickening...
Gerry J. Wasserman, a visiting scholar in the earth and planetary sciences department, worked with Frondel on the lunar rocks project...
After coming into contact with lunar dust from Apollo 12, Frondel was quarantined for two weeks along with the astronauts because of fears that alien organisms might have infected them...
Wasserman said Frondel made reference to a ray gun possessed by a popular comic strip hero of the day to explain strange glass formations in the lunar rock samples, saying, “They’re zap craters, like in Buck Rogers...
...from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they later tried to unload the illicit geology on the miniscule market for authentic lunar objects...