Largest piece of Mars on Earth is up for auction
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A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at Sotheby's.
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You Can Buy The Largest Martian Meteorite Ever Found (And A Sick Dinosaur Skeleton Too)There is a ton of really incredible stuff going up for auction, and some of it has pretty reasonable estimates — you could nab a meteorite for less than two grand. Out of the 122 lots, the main event is NWA 16788, a Martian meteorite that is the largest ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost planet.
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Glassy Martian meteorite that likely crashed to Earth in recent years to be sold at auction – and it has a massive asking priceA rock weighing 25kg. Estimated auction price: $2m (€1.7m) to $4m. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning what’s known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes a juvenile Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that’s over six feet
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