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Court: Detention of woman in moon rock sting 'degrading'

For nearly two hours on May 19, 2011, Joann Davis stood in the parking lot of a California Denny's restaurant... answering questions from a federal agent about a rice-sized piece of moon rock she wanted to sell....
Davis, who was in her 70s, had contacted NASA about the rock and claimed it was a gift to her late husband from astronaut Neil Armstrong. But lunar material gathered on the Apollo missions is considered government property, and her email prompted an investigation that brought six armed officers to the Denny's that day in a sting operation to seize the rock.
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