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Sotheby's auction house said this "Moon Rocks" is the only documented lunar thing to belong to a person in the world.
An unidentified American collector proposed stones for sale after buying them at auction in 1993 for $ 442,000.
Sotheby's stated that the buyer at an auction Thursday was another American collector, but did not reveal his name.
Prior to the auction, Sotheby's stated that rock fragments ranging in size from about two millimeters to one millimeter in millimeter could be worth a million dollars.
The auction house said the rock fragments originally belonged to Nina Ivanovna Koroliva, widow of the former director of the Soviet space program Sergei Pavlovich Koroliev. Shrapnel was offered to her in honor of her husband's contributions to the space program.
The fragments were brought by the Luna-16 spacecraft in September 1970, the statement said.
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Sotheby's auctioneers have stated that lunar rocks were the only known lunar object held by anyone in the world.
An unidentified American collector proposed stones for sale after buying them at auction in 1993 for $ 442,000.
Sotheby's stated that the buyer at an auction Thursday was another American collector, but did not reveal his name.
Prior to the auction, Sotheby's stated that rock fragments ranging in size from about two millimeters to one millimeter in millimeter could be worth a million dollars.
The auction house said the rock fragments originally belonged to Nina Ivanovna Koroliva, widow of the former director of the Soviet space program Sergei Pavlovich Koroliev. Shrapnel was offered to her in honor of her husband's contributions to the space program.
The fragments were brought by the Luna-16 spacecraft in September 1970, the statement said.
