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By Tobias Carroll When you’re looking to buy something at an auction, there’s one general rule of thumb that almost always applies: the object you’re buying originated on the planet Earth. Don’t knock that “almost always,” though — every once in a while something makes it to auction with an origin that is, as the saying goes, out of this world. That’s exactly what Bonhams will be auctioning off on April 13, 2022 — a selection of lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission. As a recent article in Atlas Obscura notes, the lunar dust in question has had something of a turbulen…