* Astronomy

Bobby Sager points across the room to a cart, made of steel and resting on four thick wheels: in it rests a glistening lump of jagged black rock, a giant meteorite three feet across.

"About 10 years ago, I got it into my head that I wanted to have a meteorite. I thought I could have my own piece of a star."

He gestures at the rock, pitted and dense - shipped all the way from Ghana, where it first fell to Earth - and explains that it reminds him of his place in the universe.
Today, Sager can't remember exactly how much the meteorite cost; he guesses at $50,000.
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