The Largest Piece of Mars on Earth Is Up for Auction

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🔴 The Largest Piece of Mars on Earth Is Up for Auction! 💎  Sotheby’s in New York is auctioning NWA 16788, a 54-pound Martian meteorite — the biggest ever found on Earth! With an estimated price of $2–$4 million, this rare red planet relic traveled 140 million miles after a colossal asteroid impact on Mars.  Discovered in Niger in 2023, this meteorite is 70% larger than any other Martian sample and represents nearly 7% of all Martian material on Earth. Also up for bid: a juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton from the Jurassic period worth up to $6 million!  🌍 From Mars to Sahara to Sotheby’s — science meets history in this once-in-a-lifetime auction!  #Mars #Meteorite #Sothebys #SpaceNews #ScienceShorts #JurassicPark #Auction #DinosaurBones #NaturalHistory #MarsOnEarth

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00:0054 pound 25 kilogram rock estimated auction price two million dollars to four million dollars

00:07why so expensive it's the largest piece of mars ever found on earth sotheby's in new york will

00:13be auctioning what's known as new a 16 788 on wednesday as part of a natural history themed

00:20sale that also includes a juvenile ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that's more than six feet two

00:25meters tall and nearly 11 feet 3 meters long according to the auction house the meteorite

00:31is believed to have been blown off the surface of mars by a massive asteroid strike before traveling

00:36140 million miles to 5 million kilometers to earth where it crashed into the sahara a meteorite hunter

00:43found it in niger november 2023 sotheby says the red brown and gray hunk is about 70 percent larger than

00:50the next largest piece of mars found on earth and represents nearly seven percent of all the

00:55material currently on this planet sotheby says it measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches

01:02375 millimeters by 279 millimeters by 152 millimeters this martian meteorite is the largest piece of mars

01:11we have ever found by a long shot cassandra hatton vice chairman for science and natural history at

01:16sotheby's said in an interview so it's more than double the size of what we previously thought was

01:22the largest piece of mars it is also a rare find there are only 400 martian meteorites out of the more

01:28than 77 000 officially recognized meteorites found on earth sotheby says hatton said a small piece of

01:35the red planet remnant was removed and sent to a specialized lab that confirmed it is from mars it was

01:40compared with the distinct chemical composition of martian meteorites discovered during the viking space

01:46probe that landed on mars in 1976 she said the examination found that it is an olivine microgobroic

01:52shurgatite a type of martian rock formed from the slow cooling of martian magma it has a coarse grain

01:58texture and contains the minerals pyroxene and olivine sotheby says dot it also has a glassy surface

02:04likely due to the high heat that burned it when it fell through earth's atmosphere hatton said so that

02:10was there first clue that this wasn't just some big rock on the ground she said the meteorite previously

02:16was on exhibit at the italian space agency in rome sotheby's did not disclose the owner it's not clear

02:22exactly when the meteorite hit earth but testing shows that probably happened in recent years sotheby

02:28said the juvenile ceratosaurus nasocorna skeleton was found in 1996 near laramie wyoming at bone cabin

02:35quarry a gold mine for dinosaur bones specialists assembled nearly 140 fossil bones with some sculpted

02:42materials to recreate the skeleton and mounted it so it's ready to exhibit sotheby says the skeleton is

02:47believed to be from the late jurassic period about 150 million years ago sotheby says its auction

02:54estimate is four million dollars to six million dollars

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