How A lot Would You Pay For A Rock From Mars?
Who would pay a number of million {dollars} for a hunk of purple, brown and grey rock? Properly, when that rock is the biggest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, there could also be loads of candidates.
Sotheby’s shall be auctioning off an impressively giant chunk of the purple planet in New York this week, and their public sale estimate sits between $2 million and $4 million.
In line with the public sale home, the meteorite is believed to have been blown away from the floor of Mars by an enormous asteroid strike earlier than touring 140 million miles to Earth, the place it crashed into the Sahara. The hunk of rock measures almost 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches, making it round 70% bigger than the following largest piece of Mars discovered on Earth.
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The hunk of rock was present in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023. In line with Sotheby’s, it represents almost 7% of all Martian materials at present identified on this planet.
Senior author Chris DeWeese edits Morning Temporary, The Climate Channel’s e-newsletter.
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