Dog kennel hit by meteorite sells at auction
NYSE - LSE
| CMSC | -0.13% | 23.62 | $ | |
| CMSD | -0.08% | 23.65 | $ | |
| JRI | 0.08% | 12.76 | $ | |
| RBGPF | 3.4% | 67.13 | $ | |
| NGG | -0.16% | 62.63 | $ | |
| SCS | -1.29% | 12.37 | $ | |
| RIO | -0.64% | 61.715 | $ | |
| BCE | -2.16% | 23.405 | $ | |
| BCC | -1.82% | 104.53 | $ | |
| RYCEF | 1.01% | 7.94 | $ | |
| GSK | -2.2% | 37.535 | $ | |
| VOD | -0.34% | 8.72 | $ | |
| RELX | -2.88% | 48.31 | $ | |
| AZN | 0% | 75.4 | $ | |
| BP | -1.51% | 32.735 | $ | |
| BTI | 0.99% | 38.945 | $ |
Dog kennel hit by meteorite sells at auction
A Christie's auction of rare meteorites Wednesday sold a rock from space that narrowly missed a German Shepherd when it smashed into his kennel in Costa Rica.
But the offer of the third-largest piece of Mars on Earth failed to make an impact at the auction house's annual sale of unusual meteorites.
The buyer paid $21,420 for the three-by-1.5 inch (eight-by-four centimeter) carbonaceous chondrite stone that landed in the garden of dog Roky's owner's home in Aguas Zarcas in April 2019.
The wood and tin doghouse itself, complete with a seven-inch hole marking where the meteorite punctured the roof, sold separately for $44,100, Christie's said.
That was much less than the pre-sale estimate of between $200,000 and $300,000.
A bidder paid $189,000 for a chunk of lunar rock that was discovered in Morocco in 2007, below pre-sale estimates of up to $300,000.
Another slice of the Moon -- found in the Sahara desert in Mauritania -- fetched $69,300 during the two-week online sale that ended Wednesday.
It was a disappointing auction for Mars, though. The 20-pound (9.1 kg) Martian rock had been priced at between $500,000 and $800,000 but failed to find a buyer.
R.Schiltz--LiLuX
