News
Darth Vader strikes back at auction as his lightsaber from two original Star Wars films reclaims the record from Luke Skywalker's prop
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 57% of the past week’s 4243 stories, and number 562 of 1996 in News.Why it’s moving
- Scoop
A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold on Thursday for nearly US$5 million in an auction. The lightsaber, which was used in the climactic duel in Cloud City where Vader tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father”, sold for US$4.875 mil
DW didn’t include a summary, so this is South China Morning Post’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2
First with it: South China Morning Post, 2 hr 47 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 2.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 2.9 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:32am AEDT | South China Morning Post | 1 |
| 1:19pm AEDT | The Globe and Mail | 2 |
| 1:27pm AEDT | DW | 3 |
Bigger than 94% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 2.9 hr; a typical News story that gets there takes 7 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT (3 most likely), and 3 to 5 by Sat, 14 Nov, 2:17pm AEDT. 3 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 3 | 3 |
| In 1 hours (3:17pm AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 3 hours (5:17pm AEDT) | 3 to 4 | 3 |
| In 6 hours (8:17pm AEDT) | 3 to 4 | 3 |
| In 12 hours (2:17am AEDT) | 3 to 5 | 3 |
| In 24 hours (2:17pm AEDT) | 3 to 5 | 4 |
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