'The experience of holding a piece of another world in your hands is something you never forget.' James Hyslop, Christie's head of science and natural history
One of the world's largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie's on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds .
"It is an actual piece of the moon. It is about the size of a football, a bit more oblong than that, larger than your head." "In the 1960s and 1970s the Apollo programme brought back about 400 kilograms of moon rock with them and scientists have been able to analyse the chemical and isotopic compositions of those rocks and they have determined that they match certain meteorites," said Hyslop.
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