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One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.
This Mars rock is up for auction at Sotheby's in New York City this week, which is why it's currently on display in the Upper ...
A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...
Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning the largest martian meteorite ever found on Earth on Wednesday as part of a natural ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
Among items going up for auction at Sotheby's in New York is a 54-pound rock that the auction house calls the largest piece ...
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NWA 16788 was discovered in Niger & is assumed to have travelled 140 million miles to reach Earth. Weighing 24.67 kg, the ...
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 ...
The largest Martian meteorite found on Earth to date is expected to fetch up to $4 million at auction in New York.
Earth's Martian material goes up for auction at a prestigious auction house this week. The estimate? $2-4 million in Earth ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...