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Oct. 12, 2007
Space Rocks Auction
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| Psssst, wanna buy a space rock? Later this month, a major auction house is offering what it calls an auction of 'fine meteorites,' including a piece of the famous Willamette meteorite on display in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (The piece was traded to a private collector over a decade ago in exchange for some Martian meteorite samples.) Buying bits of space has become a big business. In this segment, Ira talks with an expert on space-related collecting about the trend. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Robert Pearlman
Founder and Editor, collectSPACE.com
Member, U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation
Board of Directors
Induction Committee for the U.S.
Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Houston, Texas
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