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I'm a freelance writer and illustrator. Before that I was a contributing editor and illustrator at Seed magazine and a researcher at Wired. I've written about science, history and music for The Atavist, Mother Jones, Seed, Scientific American Mind, The Rumpus and The Morning News. Below is a selection of my recent work. A complete list of my published articles and illustrations can be found here. Follow me on twitter @joekloc.

The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks

February 22 2012

The Atavist

JOSEPH GUTHEINZ IS ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE MOON. DECADES AGO, ASTRONAUTS BROUGHT BACK 850 POUNDS OF ROCKS FROM THEIR LUNAR JOURNEYS; THE U.S. GAVE SOME AWAY AS “GOODWILL” GIFTS TO THE WORLD’S NATIONS. OVER TIME, MANY OF THEM DISAPPEARED, STOLEN OR LOST ON THE BLACK MARKET. GUTHEINZ, FIRST AS A NASA INVESTIGATOR AND THEN THE LEADER OF A RAGTAG GROUP OF STUDENTS, HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO GETTING THEM BACK. AUTHOR JOE KLOC TELLS A WILD STORY OF GEOPOLITICS, CRIME, SCIENCE, AND ONE MAN’S OBSESSION TO KEEP THE MOON OUT OF THE WRONG HANDS.

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Top image: Illustration of Italo Calvino's "The Distance of the Moon" by Joe Kloc. Bottom image: Illustrations of California's inshore fish by Joe Kloc.