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The Supreme Court Has Resolved the Dispute Between the Academy of Sciences and the Daughter of a Scientist over a Gram of Moon Dust.

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An unusual dispute has erupted between the Academy of Sciences and the daughter of one of the former scientists working at the institution. It all revolved around a rare sample, specifically a gram of moon dust that Czechoslovak scientists obtained from the Soviet Union. The daughter claimed that her mother obtained the dust from the Soviet side, but according to the Supreme Court, the sample belongs to the academy.

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Defeat before the Supreme Court: The family of a scientist in the Czech Republic must hand over privately stored moondust to the Academy of Sciences in Prague.

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An unusual dispute has erupted between the Academy of Sciences and the daughter of one of the former scientists working at the institution. It all revolved around a rare sample, specifically a gram of moon dust that Czechoslovak scientists obtained from the Soviet Union. The daughter claimed that her mother obtained the dust from the Soviet side, but according to the Supreme Court, the sample belongs to the academy.

The moon dust belongs to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Supreme Court (NS) confirmed in an unusual dispute. The samples came to Czechoslovakia in the 1970s thanks to international scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union. However, they remained in the possession of the researcher's family, who then took them over from Soviet colleagues on behalf of the academy. The academy learned about this in 2020 in connection with an …

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For three decades, a research institution had not guessed that it had actually heard precious moon dust. Now the material was probably to be courted - and the case was blown up.The family of a scientist in the Czech Republic had to hand over precious moon dust to the Academy of Sciences in Prague, which she had kept for decades.It was blown up when an export permit was applied for as a cultural asset for the material, probably to sell it abroad …

The moon dust belongs to the Academy of Sciences, the Supreme Court (NS) confirmed in an unusual dispute. The moon dust samples reached Czechoslovakia in the 1970s thanks to international scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union. They remained in the possession of the researcher's family, who then took them over from Soviet colleagues on behalf of the Academy. The Academy learned of this in 2020 in connection with an application for an expor…

The moon dust belongs to the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Supreme Court (NS) confirmed in an unusual dispute. The samples came to Czechoslovakia in the 1970s thanks to international scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union. However, they remained in the possession of the researcher's family, who took them over from Soviet colleagues on behalf of the academy.

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ceskenoviny.cz broke the news on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
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