Doghouse struck by meteor could fetch up to $420,000 at auction

PHOTO: Roky with his owners in Costa Rica .CREDIT: CHRISTIE’S

A doghouse that belonged to a German shepherd named Roky could sell for the price of a Brisbane apartment thanks to one truly out-of-this-world feature.

The humble wood and tin structure that housed the Alsatian is estimated to fetch between $280,000 and $420,000 (US$200,000-$300,000) at Christie’s “Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites”.

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In 2019, a meteorite fell from the sky and hurtled through the rainforest of north central Costa Rica and the city of Aguas Zarcas, tearing through Roky’s roof – with the pooch still inside.

“On April 23, 2019 at 9.07 pm, a German shephard [sic] named Roky experienced quite a fright. A meteorite, part of a shower of exotic stone meteorites loaded with organic compounds, crashed through his doghouse, barely missing him,” the auction marketing reads.

Roky’s doghouse is now forever part of scientific literature, as that particular meteor shower is in hot demand.

“Aguas Zarcas meteorites are the same type as Murchison, among the most researched meteorites of all time,” Christie’s explains.

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“These samples not only contain tens of thousands of prebiotics, including amino acids, but also pre-solar grains ranging up to twice the age of the solar system. Today, many cosmochemists throughout the world are either investigating Aguas Zarcas specimens or waiting to obtain them.”

Usually, meteorites from showers wind up landing in the ocean, which covers two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. The other fragments touch down on land, usually in remote areas. The force of impact often results in them buried deep underground.