<sod>Authorship of the article has been attributed to Richard Adams Locke,<ref Name="Deseret">{{Cite news |title=They Formed A Pair |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xaZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hkIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6760,5192821 |newspaper=[[Deseret News|The Deseret Weekly]] |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |location=Salt Lake City, UT |date=May 13, 1893 |page=665 |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref> a reporter who, in August 1835, was working for ''The Sun''. Locke never publicly admitted to being the author, while rumours persisted that others were involved. Two other men have been noted in connection with the [[hoax]]: [[Joseph Nicollet|Jean-Nicolas Nicollet]],<ref Name="Deseret" /> a French astronomer travelling in America at the time (though he was in Mississippi, not New York, when the Moon-hoax issues appeared), and [[Lewis Gaylord Clark]], editor of ''[[The Knickerbocker]]'', a literary magazine. However, there is no good evidence to indicate that anyone but Locke was the author of the hoax.<eod>
<sod>Authorship of the article has been attributed to Richard Adams Locke,<ref Name="Deseret">{{Cite news |title=They Formed A Pair |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xaZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hkIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6760,5192821 |newspaper=[[Deseret News|The Deseret Weekly]] |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |location=Salt Lake City, UT |date=May 13, 1893 |page=665 |accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref> a reporter who, in August 1835, was working for ''The Sun''. Locke publicly admitted to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper ''New World''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goodman |first=Matthew |date=2008 |title=The Sun and the Moon |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |page=274 |isbn=978-0-465-00257-3}}</ref> Still, rumours persisted that others were involved. Two other men have been noted in connection with the [[hoax]]: [[Joseph Nicollet|Jean-Nicolas Nicollet]],<ref Name="Deseret" /> a French astronomer travelling in America at the time (though he was in Mississippi, not New York, when the Moon-hoax issues appeared), and [[Lewis Gaylord Clark]], editor of ''[[The Knickerbocker]]'', a literary magazine. However, there is no good evidence to indicate that anyone but Locke was the author of the hoax.<eod>