Want to have a collection of rocks is more excited than agate collection? Perhaps it is time to collect the meteorite through this auction.
Quoted by the Daily Mail, Christie's auction house in London will hold an auction a number of large-sized meteor, whose value is estimated at about 3.4 million pounds.
Among the 83 meteor, there was a meteor that took casualties when a fireball streaking to Earth, right around the city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. In addition to loss of life, there are 112 people who were forced to the hospital.
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| Flakes of Mars and the Moon are tercungkil when a meteorite impact. (Source Christie's) |
Then there was a meteor shaped shield half half-ton to stone the most expensive, with an estimated value of approximately 800 thousand pounds.
A meteor auctioned is
a meteor Valeria recorded bring direct victims when pierced to kill a cow in 1972.
In addition to a meteor, there are also fragments of the planet Mars and the moon are tercungkil when ancient meteor impact on the two celestial bodies so that the fractures bombard the Earth.
Most meteors are auctioned obtained from a number of events today, but there are some that come from events hundreds of years ago.
An odd-shaped metal rock even described as 'plagiarized other world' of the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
James Hyslop, head of sales and specialist knowledge, saying, "Meteors arouses awe, as well as view space objects that always seemed odd."
"When looking at these objects, people realize that they have the power of the scientific and philosophical and the scientists found many of whom are from Mars and the moon."
"It was strange to hold a portion of another planet or a stone from the sky, because for most of us, this is the most real experience seemed to be there."
"Obviously there is the appeal of these chunks for scientists and natural historians and many of these meteorites belong in a museum, but they are also interesting for the art world because they are a natural carving."
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| One of the chunks of meteorites being auctioned. (Source Christie's) |
"We held a special sales into the second golden age of the meteorite collection after the first wave at the turn of the last century. The buyers come from different countries. "
"Some of them just want to admire its beauty, while others like history or feel have most of the other planets."
The exhibition will be opened to the public on April 16 and the auction conducted on 20 April by Christie's London.
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