300-Million-Year-Old, Rare Heart-Shaped Meteorite That Plummeted To Earth In '47 Goes Up For Auction On Valentine's Day

Flowers and chocolates for Valentine's Day are passé; people are now eyeing on a meteorite as a gift for their lovers.?

According to reports, the 300-million-year-old meteorite, known as the "Heart of Space," crashed to Earth in 1947 in one of the biggest meteorite showers in modern history.

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And the?British auction house Christie's is soon to open online bidding on a heart-shaped meteorite. And it can be yours for $500,000 - that's Rs 3.5 crore, roughly.

The auction?house website says that meteorite broke into smaller meteorites and came crashing down over Siberia's Sikhote-Alin mountains in a fireball "brighter than the sun."

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The nine miles per second crash caused windows to shatter, chimneys to disintegrate and trees to be ripped from the ground.

Sonic booms reverberated nearly 200 miles away. A 20-mile smoke trail hung in the sky, while the meteorites that split apart from the main body produced almost 200 craters, some up to 85 feet wide, the auction house said on its website.

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Those that broke away from the main mass when it exploded close to the ground are "jagged and twisted." But the "Heart of Space," as Christie's terms it, probably split apart at a far higher altitude.?

The meteorite was obtained from New York's Macovich Collection of Meteorites and will likely sell for 2,15,37,750 and above, reports Fox.?

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