Wagging the Moondoggie

[jberryhill]

11. About the Dutch museum rock

Now, since nothing of value, in your world, has ever been stolen from a museum, what do you suppose is more likely:

1. The moon landing was faked, and the whole thing is now unraveled because the fakers made the rookie error of giving the museum what is easily determined to be of terrestrial origin.

Or

2. Somewhere along the line, someone - and most likely someone involved to some extent in the curation of this object - obtained possession of the original rock and replaced it with something unlikely to be looked at closely until that person's trail was well covered.

There are a lot of lunar samples in laboratories and collections around the world. Are all of these samples - some of them very well studied - also fakes, and this Dutch museum just simply the first one to notice?