Dog kennel hit by meteorite sells at auction
NYSE - LSE
| RBGPF | 0% | 78.35 | $ | |
| SCS | -0.56% | 16.14 | $ | |
| GSK | -0.33% | 48.41 | $ | |
| JRI | 0.29% | 13.79 | $ | |
| BCC | -1.66% | 73.05 | $ | |
| CMSD | -0.3% | 23.25 | $ | |
| NGG | -0.66% | 75.41 | $ | |
| RELX | -0.55% | 40.32 | $ | |
| BTI | -1.81% | 57.01 | $ | |
| CMSC | -0.21% | 23.43 | $ | |
| RIO | -0.92% | 73.06 | $ | |
| AZN | 0.17% | 90.18 | $ | |
| BCE | 1.4% | 23.55 | $ | |
| RYCEF | -0.34% | 14.62 | $ | |
| BP | -3.91% | 35.83 | $ | |
| VOD | -1.31% | 12.47 | $ |
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.
W.Bakr--CdE
