New York: The only documented moon rocks still in private hands sold at an auction house in New York for 850,000. Thursday-s sale - including all sorts of objects and items pertaining to outer space - took place a month before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission to send men around the Moon for the first time, and Sotheby-s took advantage of the anniversary to offer about 300 collectors- items related to assorted space missions, reports Efe news.

The moon rocks - tiny fragments, actually, had been valued between 700,000 and 1 million, and ultimately went for 855,000 after adding taxes and commissions.