Christie's Set To Auction Space Rocks For Out Of This World Prices (networkworld.com)

coondoggie quotes a report from Networkworld: It's not everyday you could have the opportunity to buy a piece of space -- but Christie's London auction house will on April 20 offer about 80 meteorite pieces and a bunch of space-rock paraphernalia to go along with them. The collection -- consisting of a variety of space rocks from private and public collections -- is expected to sell for over a million dollars at the auction. The Valera Meteorite may be the most famous rock in the collection as it is purported to have killed a cow.

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I have a space rock to auction

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a space rock for sale. It's a lot larger than the average they have on auction, so bid accordingly.

Specs:

- mean radius: 6,371.0 km (3,958.8 mi)
- mass: 5.97237x10^24 kg (1.31668x10^25 lb)
- mean density: 5.514 g/cm^3 (0.1992 lb/cu in)

It orbits somewhere around the star called Sol. Buyer collects.

Re:The million-dollar meteorite

[arglebargle_xiv]

I had a quick look at the catalogue and it's all famous meteorites. Non-famous ones are available for very little (heck, I have about a dozen of them sitting on a shelf). It's sort of like the difference between hiring George Clooney vs. Shlomo Gefiltashlep to do a bar mitzvah.

Re:step right up ladies and gentlemen

[RogueyWon]

I hadn't realised that "killing a cow" was such a value-booster. I spy a business opportunity here.

Buy up items which could conceivably be used to kill a cow: shovels, pickaxes, trampolines (that one needs a bit of creativity) and so on. Use them to kill cows, then re-sell at a profit.

What could possibly go wrong?