This year, the Sotheby's Geek Week auction in New York comprises four categories: Buzz Aldrin: American Icon, Natural History, Jacob & Co. Astronomia Bucherer BLUE, and Meteorites.
According to a Mail Online report, online bidding opened on July 20, and the "live auction is slated on July 28. The National History category features a trove of fossilized dinosaur remnants, which include a stegosaurus tail spike dating back a century and a half.
The tail spike measures over 17 inches in length and still reveals the nutrient foramina and canals that once supported the dinosaur's blood flow.
The auction also features the "killing" claw of a dakoraraptor, used to slash at massive herbivore dinosaurs when it roamed the Earth about 66 million years back.
A Gorgosaurus Skeleton measuring 10 feet tall (3.04 meters) is unveiled at Sotheby's in New York on July 05, 2022. - The Specimen is the highlight of Sotheby's geek week sale series and is estimated at $5 to 8 million
Millions of Years Old Triceratops and American Lion Skulls Auctioned
The said dinosaur was lightly-developed and sported feathers on the entire body. The claw was found at the Hall Creek Formation in Garfield County, Montana.
Also auctioned is a 66-million-year-old triceratops skull with an estimated cost of up to $35,0000, and a 50,000-year-old extinct American lion skull that could cost up to $600,0000 when auctioned, along with a saber-toothed tiger's skull, still featuring its long, sharp teeth.
The Natural History group's main event is a complete gorgosaurus skeleton that could pick up to $8 million. The highest bid so far is $3.5 million.
The fossilized dinosaur, a relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, has a tail measurement of 9.5 feet and a length of 22 feet.
Space Icon 'Buzz Aldrin' Section
A whole Geek Week section is dedicated to Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon. A related Forbes report specified that the space icon is auctioning off his personal items from the Apollo mission.
The highlight of Sotheby’s Geek Week will be Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 flight jacket, which has a pre-sale estimate of $1 million to $2 million. https://t.co/tcZcerDc19 pic.twitter.com/Cg57Fa3XTw
— Forbes (@Forbes) July 20, 2022
A lot of people may have seen the news about Aldrin's iconic white inflight jacket up for sale, but what may have been unnoticed is his "silver felt tip pen."
This pen features a dent in its body from Aldrin using it for the replacement of a broken circuit breaker to ignite the Eagle moon lander's engines.
The engines, in turn, gave out, and if not activated, Aldrin and Neil Armstrong would not have been able to get off the Moon.
Meteorites for Sale
Another space-themed section in the auction features pieces from meteorites that fell onto the Earth. One of these pieces is a slice from the Allende meteorite, which appeared on Earth in 1969, and was reported in the Meteorite Times Magazine.
The slice, scientists explained, comprises particles created during a supernova's explosion before the solar system's formation, making it the oldest matter human hands have ever held.
There is also the captivating slice of the so-called Imilac Pallasite, complete with lively orange and yellow colored gems. Such pallasites are a type of stony-iron meteorite.
Essentially, Imilac was discovered in the Atamaca Desert of Northern Chile during the 1820s and is believed to be more than four billion years old
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