The sliver of stone encased in plastic and mounted on a wooden plaque was one of NASA's "Goodwill Moon Rocks." They were presented nearly 38 years ago to 50 states and about 130 countries to commemorate the last manned mission to the moon.
Brendan Byrne, who was governor at the time, and his chief of staff tell the Statehouse Bureau of The Record and The Star-Ledger of Newark they don't recall what happened to it.
Curator David Parris says the rock never came to the State Museum in Trenton.
A retired NASA investigator says it was either lost in the bureaucracy or stolen to sell for millions of dollars.
Student Jaime Burgos has run into dead ends trying to find the Garden State's moon rock.
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Information from: The (Newark) Star-Ledger and The (Woodland Park) Record
