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| 10/30/07 | |
 Some of the world's most famous meteorites have gone under the hammer at a New York auction house in what is said to be the first sale of its kind.
The pieces were drawn from collections across the world and many examples are richly coloured and intricately patterned, some bearing gemstones. A piece priced at $1.1m (£0.53m) did not sell but an iron meteorite from Siberia fetched $123,000 (£60,000). And a US mailbox hit by a meteorite in 1984 sold for $83,000 (£40,000). "The results were stronger than anticipated with a near-perfect result," Bonhams meteorite specialist Claudia Florian said after the sale. Bonhams, she added, hoped to sell the unsold lots "in the next several days". Read the rest of the article at: BBC
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