MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - Researchers from Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit have discovered that lunar rock on display at the country's Rijksmuseum has been nowhere near the Moon, Dutch media reported on Friday.
The exhibit has been on display at the famous Dutch museum since the death of the country's former premier, Willem Drees, who was given it by the U.S. Apollo-11 crew in 1969, The Netherlands' de Volkskrant reported.
The museum once had the rock insured for 100,000 Dutch guilders ($65,000), according to de Telegraaf. The museum will reportedly keep it as a curiosity.
The Apollo-11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
More than a hundred countries received moon rocks from the U.S. space agency, NASA, after lunar missions in the 1970s.
