A piece of the moon for sale .. but the price is very fantastic

Perhaps realization of some people’s dream of stepping on the moon becomes easy and affordable, but the price seems exorbitant, and this time not to reach the moon’s surface, but rather to reach a piece from there to the planet on which humans live, and suffers from the worst pandemic in its history Arising from the emerging corona virus.

In one of the strangest and rarest selling deals landed on the world markets for sale is a very rare piece extracted from the surface of the moon, which is only a stone rock, but this rare rock is more expensive than gold, as the estimated price is two and a half million US dollars, according to what He mentioned a report published by the British newspaper “Metro” and viewed by “Al-Arabiya.net”.

According to the published information, the piece offered for sale is a “lunar meteorite,” which is in fact a rock taken from the moon and weighing 13.5 kilograms, while its estimated price is two million pounds (2.5 million US dollars).

Scientists say that its landing on our planet may have been caused by an asteroid or comet colliding with the moon earlier, which led to the fall of this rock or “meteorite” on the ground and then it was found and is now offered for sale to the public.

This lunar meteorite carries the name (NWA 12691) and it is believed that this meteorite is the fifth largest rock that has ever fallen from the moon on the planet Earth. There are currently only 650 kilograms of lunar rock on Earth, and this rock is one of these recorded rocks discovered by scientists on our planet.

This lunar rock is now found in one of the largest auction houses in the world, which is “Christie’s” company specialized in organizing international auctions and selling rare pieces that are brought in from different parts of the world.

“It is an unforgettable experience that you can hold your hands on a piece of another world,” said James Hislop, head of science and natural history at Christie’s.

He added: “It is a real piece of the moon, the size of football, or a little larger, or that it is larger than the head of an ordinary person.” He pointed out that this piece was found by an unknown traveler in one of the deserts of Africa, to discover that it reached a planet The Earth, having traveled 240,000 miles (384,000 km), is the distance between the Moon and Earth.

Scientists were able to confirm that this rocky piece came from the moon to the planet after being compared with pieces brought by the American space mission “Apollo”, which landed on the surface of the moon in the middle of the last century, where “Apollo” returned with 400 kilograms of the moon’s surface, While there are currently 650 kilograms on Earth, which means that 250 kilograms of moon have been found on the planet.

It is noteworthy that the company “Christie’s” intends to offer the rock piece for direct private sale, and not in public auction, according to information published by the newspaper “Metro”.

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