A Rock Apollo 14 Astronauts Found on the Moon Actually Came From Earth

Earthly Moon Rocks
In 1971, astronauts aboard the Apollo 14 mission collected a moon rock that scientists have now found likely originated on Earth. During a new investigation, researchers found that the rock, officially named 14321, contains traces of minerals and has a chemical makeup that are both common to Earth and extremely strange for the moon. The research team thinks that, most likely, a rock that formed on Earth four billion years ago was launched to the moon's surface b