Bag Of Moon Dust Sells For Nearly $2 Million

An anonymous bidder is the proud owner of a bag of moon dust.  A bag used by Neil Armstrong to bring back the first samples of rocks from the moon sold for more than $1,800,000 at Sotheby's in New York Thursday.  

The auction coincided with the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  The bag was seized by U.S. Marshals from a Kansas museum manager who was convicted of stealing it in 2014. It was then sold to an Illinois woman in an online government auction two years ago for just $995.  The winning bid was actually $2,000,000 below earlier predictions.

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