Auction kennel hit by meteorite sold for $44k at Christie’s auction

Other items attracting large bids include 15g fragment of Winchcombe meteorite

While billionaires are battling it out in a race to colonise the moon, mere stratospherically rich mortals on Earth were able to grab a small slice of space rock for themselves on Wednesday at Christie's annual sale of rare and unusual meteorites.

Star-gazers and meteorite enthusiasts bid frantically for fragments of the oldest matter humankind can touch" - as the auction house put it - while other objects such as a comet-cracked kennel from Costa Rica sold for tens of thousands of dollars.