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Largest UK meteorite auction makes a big impact

Sales from Robert Elliot's legendary collection included the so-called Christmas Meteorite for £8k
The auction of the Robert Elliot Collection of Meteorites, the largest collection of meteorites ever to come on the market in the United Kingdom, was a great success.
Ninety percent of the 171 lots found buyers, with enthusiastic international bidding and some fantastic prices for rare pieces.
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The largest private collection of meteorites and space memorabilia in the UK was auctioned off yesterday, in Edinburgh.  The rocks were collected by Rob Elliott who has been obsessed with detritus from space since he was a child. The total number of items included in the sale was in excess of 170, and the collection fetched a total of £113,000.

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Meteorite hunter Rob Elliott sells off his collection of space rocks
Yesterday, Mr Elliott auctioned off almost all his collection in Edinburgh. He had valued the 171 items at more than £500,000, but the four fifths that sold fetched £113,000.

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Rare Irish meteorites put up for sale
They came from outer space and crashed in Ireland at about 100mph.
Now fragments from these two rare 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites which fell from the sky in Carlow and Tipperary almost 200 years apart are up for sale.
The first meteorite landed at Mooresfort, Co Tipperary, in August 1810, while the other fell at approximately 10.10pm at Leighlinbridge in Co Carlow on November 28, 1999.

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Some odd bits of rubble are expected to make Rob Elliott richer to the tune of more than £250,000 (Dh1.5 million) later this week.

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The Indiana Jones of the meteorology world is to sell the artefacts he fought tooth and nail against other hunters for in a landmark auction next week.

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The UK's largest private collection of space artefacts, which includes meteorites and rocks from the Moon and Mars, is being put up for auction.
More than 170 items, collected by self-proclaimed meteorite chaser Robert Elliott, are expected to fetch more than £500,000.
Among the most notable pieces is the remaining part of the Hambleton meteorite, found in Yorkshire in 2005.

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The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Auction



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The largest collection of meteorites in Britain is to go to the highest bidder at the Capital's Lyon and Turnbull auction house this month.
The Robert Elliott Collection includes 171 meteorites and other space artefacts, estimated to be worth £500,000 in total.

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