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🚨🇺🇸 $5.3 MILLION FOR A CHUNK OF MARS? YEP... EARTHLING APPROVED
A 54-pound Martian meteorite named NWA 16788 just sold at Sotheby’s for a record-breaking $5.3 million - the most ever paid for a space rock.
It’s the largest known piece of Mars ever found on Earth, discovered in Niger’s Sahara Desert in 2023 after launching off the Martian surface during an ancient asteroid impact.
It survived 140 million miles of deep space and a fiery reentry, landing in just the right patch of desert where someone actually knew what they were looking at.
Only about 400 Martian meteorites exist, and none come close to this size.
It still has a fusion crust from slamming through Earth’s atmosphere and that unmistakable Martian red.
The buyer hasn’t been named...
Who wonders if SpaceX offices may have a new knickknack soon?
Source: Reuters
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🚨🇺🇸 $4 MILLION MARTIAN METEORITE LANDS ON NYC AUCTION BLOCK
Deep in the heart of New York, Sotheby’s is gearing up to sell NWA 16788, a 54-pound Martian rock that’s basically a celebrity from space, expected to haul in $2 million to $4 million.
Blasted off Mars by a colossal asteroid and rocketing millions of miles through the void, it crash-landed in Niger in 2023 and now might end up as someone’s ultimate sci-fi flex piece.
Packed with minerals like pyroxene and olivine and boasting a glassy shell from blazing through Earth’s atmosphere, it measures nearly 15 by 11 by 6 inches and makes up almost 7% of all Martian rocks ever found here.
Only about 400 Martian meteorites exist out of more than 77,000 space rocks discovered on Earth, so museums and collectors are itching to grab it like it’s the missing relic from the next alien saga.
And honestly, who wouldn’t want to own a chunk of Mars while we’re all still stuck on Earth binge-watching SpaceX lift off almost daily?
Source: AP
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