The trainers made of meteorite that cost £10,000 – and the other space collectables that are out of this world and up for auction
What do you buy the man who has everything? A chunk of the cosmos is a good place to start.
What price a tiny sphere of iron formed in the molten core of an asteroid 4.4 billion years ago? Or Libyan ‘desert glass’ created 29 million years ago when a comet struck Earth’s prehistoric dunes?
From Christie’s auction halls to Ebay dealerships, the market for meteors is booming, as auction records keep tumbling.
Elon Musk, Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, Yo-Yo Ma, Uri Geller and James Taylor are among the A-listers who have splashed fortunes on hunks of the heavens.
The crypto crowd go wild for glittering pallasite star falls, peppered with winking yellow ‘space gems’, or curved obsidian lumps of cosmic iron, baked beneath a tortured ‘fusion crust’ hewn by the heat of atmospheric entry that reaches a red-hot 1,800 degrees celsius.
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