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Meteorite Gets $93K at New York Auction

An AP newswire article by Pat Milton, via ABC News, reports that:

A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter sold for $93,000 Tuesday at an auction of rare space sculptures.

The 355-pound chunk of iron, thousands of years old and discovered in the Campo del Cielo crater field in Argentina, was one of 10 meteorites that went for high prices at a Bonhams' New York natural history auction.

The pristine meteorite, known as "Valley of the Sky," was purchased by a private collector in the United States who bid by phone and plans to display it as a work of art, said Thomas Lindgren, acting director of the natural history division for Bonhams auction house.

posted by Fergie @ 4/11/2006 06:10:00 PM