How much is a rock from the moon worth?

NASA assessed the value of the rocks at around $50,800 per gram in 1973 dollars, based on the total cost of retrieving the samples. That works to just a hair over $300,000 a gram in today's currency.
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Can you buy a piece of rock from the moon?

It is illegal for private citizens to own or buy any authentic Moon Rocks or related material. Lunar samples obtained on Earth through findings of crashed lunar meteorites are legal. However, as with all valuable and sought-after items, they are auctioned and sold illegally.
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How much is a NASA moon rock worth?

They settled on a price of $5,000 a gram, which put the total value of the rocks in the safe at about $21 million.
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How much does a space rock cost?

A prime specimen will easily fetch $50/gram while rare examples of lunar and Martian meteorites may sell for $1,000/gram or more — almost forty times the current price of gold!
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Is it illegal to sell moon rocks?

Moon rocks are considered national treasure in the United States and their sale is illegal. The rock was recovered but Nasa investigators have not yet determined whether it is genuine. The sting operation had been planned for several months and took place at a restaurant.
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Who buys moon rocks?

NASA may be the only organization that's currently in the market for buying moon rocks from private companies, but the space agency allowed the companies to name their price. Lunar Outpost pledged to sell their sample for just $1, by far the smallest bid. Both iSpace companies plan to sell their samples for $5,000.
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How much is a 8th of Moonrocks?

Moon Rocks-1/8th- $40 SPECIAL.
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Who owns a moon rock?

Apollo Moon Rocks are NASA and US government property which cannot be sold or exchanged to private citizens. Lunar meteorites are "Moon Rocks" just the same as the Apollo samples, except for one major detail : lunar meteorites were delivered to Earth by Mother Nature, and not astronauts who are government employees.
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How much is a pound of moon rock worth?

Since those rocks, (which, precisely, weighed 101 grams), were valued at $21 million, that extrapolates to $94 million per pound.
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How much is moon dust worth?

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How much is a piece of moon?

You can buy a piece of the moon for about $2.5 million | CNN.
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Can you touch a moon rock?

There are only eight lunar rocks available to touch by the general public in the world. This one is 3.8 billion years old.
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What is moon rock made of?

Moon rocks are made by taking a nugget of marijuana and dipping it in or spraying it with concentrate, or hash oil. They're usually made with Girl Scout Cookies (the weed strain, not Thin Mints) flower and concentrate, but can be made with any strain. The coated nugget is then rolled in kief.
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How much are Mars rocks worth?

A large chunk of Martian rock, worth an estimated $30,000 to $50,000, holds bubbles of the planet's atmosphere trapped inside. According to Christie's, there are a dozen samples from the moon and Mars, and another dozen previously housed by famous museums around the world.
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Where can I see a moon rock?

- Find A Moon Rock -
  • Anchorage Museum.
  • US Space and Rocket Center.
  • Arizona State University.
  • Pima Air & Space Museum.
  • California Science Center.
  • Griffith Observatory.
  • Chabot Science Center.
  • San Diego Air & Space Museum.
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Can I buy a piece of the Moon?

Can I buy the moon? For now at least, the moon is like the sea: everyone can use it, but no one can own it. In 1967 the U.S. and the Soviet Union negotiated the Outer Space Treaty, which states that no nation can own a piece of the moon or an asteroid.
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Can I buy moon dust?

NASA maintains that "lunar material retrieved from the Moon during the Apollo Program is U.S. Government property." In other words, the government owns it, and you can't sell it.
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How many moon rocks are missing?

Of the 270 Apollo 11 Moon rocks and the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks that were given to the nations of the world by the Nixon Administration, approximately 180 are unaccounted for.
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How long do you let moon rocks dry?

Let the moon rocks dry

Depending on how much oil you used, your nugs could dry in as little as a few hours or as long as 3-7 days. When the moonrocks are ready, pack a bowl or roll a joint. And enjoy!
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What are moon rocks d8?

Moon Rocks is the name given to cannabis buds that are soaked in a distillate containing CBD or THC, then rolled in a powder of cannabinoid-heavy kief. In other words, Moon Rocks is a way of combining two or more strains of cannabis into one product that produces powerful and multi-pronged effects.
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Are Delta 8 moon rocks good?

Moon rocks are not an ideal pick for beginners because of their high levels of delta-8, so don't go straight to using them without any previous experience. Even if you're a cannabis veteran, you have to be very careful with the dosage.
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How much moon rock is on Earth?

More than 370 lunar meteorites have been collected on Earth, representing more than 30 different meteorite finds (no falls), with a total mass of over 190 kilograms (420 lb).
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What did NASA do with moon rocks?

' NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon and sealed it away before returning to Earth. The precious sample from Apollo 17 is one of the last pristine remaining bits of the moon.
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How many rocks were brought back from the Moon?

Apollo 11 carried the first geologic samples from the Moon back to Earth. In all, astronauts collected 21.6 kilograms of material, including 50 rocks, samples of the fine-grained lunar regolith (or "soil"), and two core tubes that included material from up to 13 centimeters below the Moon's surface.
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What's a moon rock look like?

Moon rocks are usually gray. Some look like a chunk of concrete. Others are breccia, which is stone made of rock pieces melded together. But if these pebbles look like terrestrial pebbles, how can we tell a Moon rock is, well, from the Moon?
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