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Largest Piece of Mars to Hit Earth Is Up for Sale

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
The meteorite is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars by an asteroid strike before traveling 140 million miles to Earth.
Biggest Piece of Mars on Earth Is Up for Auction in New York With $4 Million Price Tag. Why So Expensive?
The biggest piece of mars around 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock is up for auction in New York city. Its estimated auction price is about $2 million to $4 million.
The Largest Piece of Mars to Hit Earth Is Up for Sale
The auction house Sotheby’s has offered a new way to get a piece of Mars without entrusting your life to Elon Musk, who has pledged to send people to Mars by 2029: Buying a piece of it instead. A 54-pound rock that’s believed to be the largest piece of Mars to ever crash to Earth will go on sale Wednesday,
Biggest piece of Mars on Earth, juvenile dinosaur skeleton up for auction at Sotheby's
Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. The auction house is also selling a juvenile ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that’s more than 6 feet tall and nearly 11 feet long.
Sotheby's Auction: Biggest Martian rock on Earth goes on sale. Here’s how it came to Earth
Sotheby’s New York will auction a 54-pound Martian meteorite and a juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton during Geek Week 2025. The meteorite, NWA 16788, could fetch $4 million. The dinosaur skeleton, from the late Jurassic period,
New York auction boasts a heavy, pricy rock: A meteorite broken from Mars
This Martian meteorite is the largest piece of Mars we have ever found by a long shot,” said Cassandra Hatton, vice chairman for science and natural history at Sotheby’s.
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