One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite. This space rock, discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023, is the largest chunk of the Red Planet ever found on Earth. Sotheby’s, a New York-based auction house, estimates the meteorite could fetch up to $4 million during its natural …
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Largest Mars Meteorite Heads To Auction Block
Play How Much Would You Pay For A Rock From Mars? Who would pay several million dollars for a hunk of red, brown and gray rock? Well, when that rock is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, there may be plenty of candidates. Sotheby’s will be auctioning off an impressively large chunk of the red planet in …
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