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Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite |
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Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite poses for photographs with the meteorite at Bonham's Auction house in New York, April 30, 2008.
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Widely acknowledged as the world's pre-eminent pallasitic meteorite found in the Gobi desert and thought to be as old as the solar system, the Fukang meteorite is expected to fetch as much as $2.7million at an auction by Bonham's in New York on April 30.
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Story by Mike Segar |
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Photo by MIKE SEGAR |
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