The fifth largest moon stone was sold at auction for around Rs 21 crore

A piece of the moon was auctioned! Christie's auction house in London is the fifth largest moon stone ever found on Earth. The price rose to 2 million pounds or about 21 crore Bangladeshi rupees. News this period.

The rock weighing 13.5 kg probably fell from the moon's chest due to a meteor or comet. The stone was recovered from the Sahara Desert. This moon stone is known as NWA12691.


So far, a total of 650 kg of moon stones have been found on Earth. There is a strange feeling in holding an object outside of this world, said James Hislop, head of Christie's Department of Science and Natural History.
This stone, about the size of a football, looks like the stone of the moon when it was carried by NASA's Apollo space mission.

The moon is coming closest to the earth this year. The US space agency NASA has said that this supermoon is known as 'Pink Moon'. They have encouraged everyone to see the moon.

The biggest and brightest moon of the year will be seen on Wednesday night during Bangladesh time. The moon comes closest to the earth when orbiting an elliptical orbit, that is, when the moon orbits in orbit around 90 percent of the earth.

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