(Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP) (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP via Getty Images) He decided to plan an auction for his precious collection of meteorites in order to ensure his retirement. – Gerard Merlier has stride along the deserts in search of meteorites. French meteorite hunter Gerard Merrier shows several pieces of Mars meteorite on Februin Tours, central France before he sells his collection at auction on Februin Vendôme.(Photo by Fred TANNEAU / AFP) (Photo by FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images) It had rested undisturbed for “at least 100 years”, according to a geochemist at France’s Brest University. Known as Erg Chech 002, the meteorite was discovered in May 2020 by meteor hunters in the Algerian Sahara desert. The space rock, which began its journey some 4.5 billion years ago, has already proved an “exceptional” witness to the building blocks of the planets. – Scientists believe they have identified a meteorite formed in the first million years of our solar system, making it the oldest known meteor of volcanic origin. This picture taken on April 7, 2021, in Brest, western France, shows a fragment of the meteorite Erg Chech 002.Halley’s Comet photographed by the Soviet Probe “Vega” in 1986.(Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images) A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above a camping site at the Negev desert near the city of Mitzpe Ramon on Augduring the Perseids meteor shower, which occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle.(Photo by David Becker / AFP) (Photo by DAVID BECKER/AFP via Getty Images) – The Comet C/2020 F3 was discovered March 27, 2020, by NEOWISE, the Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a space telescope launched by NASA in 2009. The Comet NEOWISE or C/2020 F3, with its two tails visible, is seen in the sky above Goldfield, Nevada on July 18, 2020.After a year of circling and taking pictures, NEAR will touch down on asteroid Eros February 12, 2001, to capture surface details, which will be the first time any craft has tried to land on a tumbling space rock. A mosaic image of asteroid Eros at it’s north pole, taken by the robotic NEAR Shoemaker space probe Februimmediately after the spacecraft’s insertion into orbit.The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth’s orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, UT – AUGUST 12: A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above Inspiration Point early on Augin Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.(Photo by Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images) SPRUCE KNOB, WV – AUGUST 11: In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug.
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