'Moon rock' just petrified wood

AMSTERDAM: It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.

The Dutch national museum said yesterday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by US astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.

Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum would keep it anyway as a curiosity.