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Artist - Roberto Perkins
Skull Carved from 4 Billion Year Old Meteorite set for Auction
We've seen meteorite knives, and meteorite swords, but here's a new one: a space-rock skull is up for sale at Los Angeles
Bonhams auction house. The sculpture was carved by Bali-based artist Lee Downey from a hulking 105 pound (47.6 kg) chunk
of the Gibeon Meteorite, which was found in Namibia in 1836.
Despite reports that the piece is made from "one of the rarest" forms of meteorite found on Earth, some 25 tons
of Gibeon space rocks have been recovered to date. And while specimens can no longer be exported from Namibia,
it's still one of the most commonly available meteorites on the market.
Before you start reaching for your Benjamins, you should know that you’ll need a lot of them. Four-billion-year-old
celestial objects don’t come cheap, rare or not. We estimate that the original piece the skull was cut from would
have fetched somewhere around $150,000.
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