A bidder on Earth will soon be too green for a piece red Planet As a martian meteorite for a sotby auction.
According to Sothabi, the largest piece of Mars on Earth during the July 16 auction in the city of New York NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, is expected to bring up to $ 4 million. The pieces of Mars found on Earth are rare. According to the auction house, there are only 400 – or about 0.6% – out of over 77,000 officially recognized meteorites found on Earth. The meteorite currently represents about 6.5% of all martian materials known on Earth.
Meteorite come MeteorouslySpace rocks that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Most meteor burns they fall towards the Earth, but those who avoid traveling through the Earth’s atmosphere are considered meteorite. The portion of the Martian rock being auctioned by Sothabi was disorganized from the planet by an asteroid strike.
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NWA 16788 covered a distance of 140 million miles through space before crashing in the Sahara Desert, where it was found in 2023 as per Sothabi in the remote Agadez area of ​​Niger.
“The possibilities of this happening are astronomically smaller from there,” said Cassandra Haton, vice chairman of science and natural history. Video,
Meteorite weighs more than just 54 pounds, which makes it the largest meteorite from Mars, but has not received the biggest meteorite ever. As NASAA meteorite originally fell into Namibia, a weight of more than 100 tonnes.
It is believed that NWA 16788 is “a relative newcomer on Earth, recently fallen from outer space,” Sothabi said in its auction listing. The meteorite is on the public view in Sothabi’s New York galleries till 15 July.
“This is not just a miraculous discovery, but a huge dataset that can help us unlock the secrets of its neighbor, red planet,” Hutton said in the auction house Video,
Regular auction meteorite of Sothabi.
The auction house wrote, “Moon and Mars samples are one of the biggest rareness on our planet – as each of the two will fit in the cargo grip of a large SUV,” is written in the auction house. 2022 Collector Guide,