Nerds Week.. Sotheby’s sells rare collectibles at fantastic prices (photos)

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Sotheby’s International Auctions in New York hosts the annual Nerd Week, and the auction is expected to witness the display of unique and rare scientific items, including pieces of meteorites, moon rocks and other planets from outer space.

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The auction will include displaying pieces from outer space and from the moon, in addition to collectibles used by astronauts during their repeated trips to space and the moon.

The price of the exhibits is expected to reach tens of millions of dollars, and the auction will witness fierce competition from lovers of rare exhibits.

The auction is displaying astronaut Aldrin’s personal items from the Apollo mission, including a silver pen, which can fetch up to $2 million, and also from Aldrin’s personal collection, the custom-made earpiece he wore during the mission can fetch up to $12,000.

The Aldrin Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented by former US President Richard Nixon to astronaut Aldrin in 1969, will sell for up to $30,000.


In addition to the pallasite meteorite, it is a type of iron rock meteorite, which was found in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile in 1822.

It dates back 4.5 billion years.

In addition to a sample of the moon that reached Earth after an asteroid collided on the surface of the moon, an amount of up to 85,000 dollars.

The week also sees the display of fossilized dinosaur remains, including the tail of a 150-million-year-old stegosaurus, the tail of more than 17 inches long and still showing the hole and feeding channels that supported the blood flow of the dinosaur, as well as the skull of a type of dinosaur. Triceratops, 66 million years old, is estimated to fetch up to $35,000.

The exhibits also include a 50,000-year-old extinct American lion skull, which can be worth up to $600,000, along with a long, sharp-toothed skull, and a complete skeleton of a gorgosaurus is expected to fetch up to $8 million.

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