Selling rocks…
2007 October 28
The BBC reports that some of the world’s most famous meteorites are up for auction in New York. Various things mark the rocks out as being worth paying for…
Only one is documented as having made a fatal impact. The fatality, in the case of the Valera Meteorite which hit a field in Venezuela in 1972, was a cow. “It’s very rare to have a meteorite actually impact a living being… so now that particular meteorite is considered to be collectible,” Bonhams meteorite specialist Claudia Florian told the BBC’s Radio Five Live.
Poor cow.
