Billions of years old meteorites sold at incredible prices

Auction House Christie has opened a public auction to sell a rare collection of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts, many of which are billions of years old.

It is expected that the value of one of the samples of moon rocks in the auction, which will continue until August 25, is expected to reach more than 500 thousand dollars in the auction, known as "Lunar Feldspathic Breccia", as it was found in the Sahara Desert in northwest Africa, in An area that straddles the borders of Mauritania and the Western Sahara, was cut, bent and polished into a ball. And its mixture of lunar regolith and volcanic glass are signs of the effects of an ancient asteroid on the moon, according to the British newspaper "Mirror".

The group of lunar rocks also includes the Lake Murray meteorite, one of the rarest objects on Earth and older than humanity itself, and whose sale price is expected to reach about $ 40,000.

A piece of lunar jewelry with precious stones from outside the earth is also presented at auction, and its price is estimated at 27 thousand pounds, equivalent to about 35 thousand dollars, and it is expected that the price of the smaller lunar piece offered in the auction will reach 15 thousand pounds sterling. "19 one thousand dollars".