Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite, holds a polished etched slice of the meteorite at Bonham's Auction house in New York, April 30, 2008. Widely acknowledged as the world's pre-eminent pallasitic meteorite found in the Gobi desert and thought to be as old as the solar system, the Fukang meteorite is expected to fetch as much as $2.7million and the polished etched slice as much as $20,000 during an auction by Bonham's in New York on April 30. [Agencies]