NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.

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Auction house Sotheby's will be hosting its annual Natural History sale in New York City on July 16, which features "...a carefully curated selection of dinosaur and non-dinosaur fossils, meteorites, ...

Chennaoui’s own museum, The Attarik Foundation, holds a 7 gram fragment worth $7,000. The high sale prices of the so-called Tissint Martian pieces reflected their freshness, rarity and origin – Mars – ...

BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — The explosive meteorite blasted into the skies over Georgia with a sonic boom, maybe you saw it on video or social media. But soon you’ll be able to see a chunk of the Georgia ...

"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said. He bought a ...

# NASA data for ALH 77257 Weathering: Ae Fracturing: B Fa: 14 mol % Fs: 12 mol % ²⁶Al: 38.7 ± 1.5 dpm/kg Approximately one-half of the sample's surface is rounded and mostly covered with fusion crust ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania – You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...

On June 26, 2024, residents across the southeastern United States witnessed an extraordinary event—a brilliant fireball blazing through the night sky. The spectacle ended dramatically when fragments ...