The biggest falling stone falls from the moon and is sold

A stone that once fell from the moon to Earth will be auctioned off and experts predict its minimum price will be $ 340,000.

Dar al Gani 1058 , the name of the stone, has a volume of 1,815g and is the fourth largest stone that humans obtain from the moon. Heritage Auctions, the auction organizer, said it was the largest moon meteorite ever auctioned. The company did not publish the name of the seller, Livescience reported.

The stone Dar al Gani 1058 is the largest moon meteorite the public ever
see and is the fourth most massive moon meteorite that humans have ever taken.

The initial price of Dar al Gani 1058 is US $ 170,000 and the auction process will last until October 14. Heritage Auctions considers that the stone will be a major concern for museums, but does not exclude a personal collector who will pay the highest price to own it.

"In the meteorite market, size is not as important as the origin," said Robert Pearlman, editor of collectspace.com page, speaking. His page collects information about the history of the universe and objects in space.

Pearlman said that the stones brought by the US and Russian robots from the moon are often sold at a higher price than other moon-type meteorites, because the collectors appreciate their historical value.

"For example, the only three seed-sized moon rocks that a Russian unmanned spacecraft brought in 1970 sold for $ 442,500 after 30 years. The stones that astronauts in the Apollo era brought. Pearlman is considered a national treasure and every gram of them can be sold for several million dollars, " Pearlman argues.

The meteorite association said that Dar al Gani 1058 was discovered in Libya in 1998. It came to Earth due to the effects of natural processes. Before "visiting" the planet, it once lay on a permanent, half-dark plateau of the moon. Until now humans still do not know the cause of the stone leaving the moon and falling to the earth.