Three little pieces of moonstone auctioned for nearly $ 1 million

How about having a little piece of the moon in your house? Because that desire can be a little expensive, so it was seen in a recent auction that managed to raise $ 855, 000, or $ 3.3 million, for three tiny stones from our natural satellite.

The three small pieces of moonstone that were sold came to Earth on an unmanned Russian mission that took place in September 1970.

You might think it's a lot, since the moon is a huge million-ton stone ball. The problem is that all the material that was taken from there belongs to the US and Russian governments, so the pieces - if anything that size can be called that - that were auctioned are extremely rare. Still, NASA has already brought about 382 kg of moon stones.

Soviet rocks

The three small pieces of moonstone that were sold came to Earth on an unmanned Russian mission that took place in September 1970, Luna 16, which brought to our planet about 310 g of rocks. The three pebbles were given to Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of the chief designer and director of the Soviet space program Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.

Stored in a 5.1 cm x 5.1 cm metal cube with a magnifying glass opening so we can appreciate the stones, the small rocks are feldspar crystal fragments of just a few milligrams. They are believed to be the only lunar rocks that belong to individuals, not to the government of any country. It is not known who was the buyer of the stones.

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Three little pieces of moonstone were auctioned for almost $ 1 million via TecMundo