Everything on Your Palm

Since the dawn of time, we have all heard lovers claim that they can bring the moon for their loves ones to prove their love. Now, you can actually get a piece of the Moon, but for a pretty hefty price. Recently,  Christie's , a British auction house, known to sell unique items listed one of the largest pieces of Moonrock up for a private sale.  The Moonrock named NWA 12691 is currently listed on Christie's website and you can get it for a price of £2 million  (~$2.5 million) or Rs 18.9 crores. Now, the NWA 12961 is not one of the rocks that were brought in by the NASA astronauts when they went to the Moon during the Apollo missions.  This 13.5 kg Moonrock is the fifth largest piece of the Moon on Earth  and is a part of the 30 lunar meteorites that broke off from our Moon when an asteroid hit the surface hundreds or even thousands years ago. Image Courtesy: Christie's These lunar meteorites are quite rare in our world as apart from the 400 kgs of ro...