1.5 million euros for dust bag

A bag of trace of lime dust on Thursday auctioned at Sotheby's in New York 1.

A Chicago woman offered the dust bag for sale. She bought it for less than $ 1000 in an auction of government supplies in 2015 and left him authenticated by NASA. The space agency recognized the bag and tried to get back in vain, because it belonged to the American people. '

According to NASA, he was accidentally sentenced to the wrecked items, but a judge decided in December that the woman had obtained the item lawfully. Who is the buyer of the dust bag, has not been announced.