Buy Us This: The "Garza Stone"

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on May 12, 2009 9:40PM

If you haven't yet had your fill of auctions involving Chicago landmarks, why not go for something a little more...unique? Say, something from outer space? If you're still in it to win it, you're in luck. The famous "Garza Stone" is going up for auction. The stone is actually a meteorite chunk that crashed through the house of Park Forest resident Noe Garza on March 26, 2003. Heritage Auctions out of Dallas is coordinating the auction and the minimum bid is $42,000. David Herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions, told the Tribune, "Very few meteorites that have ever hit the Earth have had human encounters like this...The smaller the target a meteorite hits, the more valuable it becomes." He added, "The market is better for meteorites now and the prices seem to keep going up and up." We honestly had no idea there was even a market for meteorites.

So what are you waiting for? We have a birthday coming up and you need to buy us a present, so get bidding!