But meteorites at $20,000 and below generated intense interest with many selling well above the highest estimated value. One slice of a Siberian iron meteorite, which revealed a particularly ...

NEW YORK – A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream ...

A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream.” The ...

More than half of the meteorites in the sale come from the Macovich collection, the world's largest grouping of aesthetic iron meteorites -- specimens that are considered desirable for display.

Sneak a Peek at the Multi-Million Dollar Meteorites Soon up for Sale Christie’s is auctioning off dozens of rare and important meteorites, including pieces of the rock that exploded over Russia ...

A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream.” The ...

Meteorites shaped into spheres caught the eye of another potential buyer, Wassief Boctor. [Photos of Meteorites For Sale] "I can use them as paperweights, and besides they are cheap," he said ...

More than 125 meteorites were offered in the private sale, from gray pockmarked lumps of iron to highly polished slabs glittering with extraterrestrial gems.

This meteorite, found in China 's Gobi Desert, is a pallasite, a class of stony-iron meteorites that contain the mineral olivine.

The commercial meteorite market isn't limited to the meteorites themselves. Items struck by meteorites -- a Chevy Malibu and a mailbox, for instance, have also sold for handsome prices. A Martian ...

The sale of his first backup meteorite, a silvery iron one from Siberia, followed a similar course.