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Cyprus Moon Rock Vanishes During Coup, Exactly As Moon Rocks Do

After Apollo 11, Richard Nixon had NASA make 250 commemorative plaques , each holding about four rice-sized specks of moon dust mounted next to a flag that had flown to the moon and back. In 1970, one went to Cyprus, along with all 135 other countries, all 50 US states, and the…