The 'Sword from the Heavens' dream is dead

In January I wrote that if I ever found a large meteorite, it would take me about three nanoseconds to spend scads of money to turn it into a sword. I've changed my mind.

A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter sold for $93,000 Tuesday at an auction of rare space sculptures.

The 355-pound chunk of iron, thousands of years old and discovered in the Campo del Cielo crater field in Argentina, was one of 10 meteorites that went for high prices at a Bonhams' New York natural history auction.

The 'Sword from the Heavens' would be cool, but not as cool as a hundred grand.