It’s just a piece of rock, but it’s from another planet (literally). The bidding is in the $ 1.92 million
The largest piece of Mars on Earth goes to auction this month. Forbes estimates that it beats sales records.
If the rocks spoke, the NWA 16788 It would have a great story to tell.
He was Ejected from Mars Through a massive asteroid collision, he wandered in the space for centuries, then found his way to the gravitational field of the Earth and landed at more than 225 million kilometers from which he began, being found in 2023.
NWA16788 is really the Biggest piece of mars known on Earth.
As details A, its internal composition suggests that it has been expelled from the surface of the red planet by such an extreme asteroid impact that it has transformed some of the glass meteorite minerals.
Now the rock is being auctioned for a minimum price of $ 1,920,000. But its higher estimate of $ 4 million does not seem safe with so much interest in an online auction.
Even if it beats sales records.
Rock that is not from this planet (literally)
The reason for the price of this rock is the rarity: Of the more than 77,000 officially recognized meteorites, Only 400 are Martian meteorites.
But this is by far the biggest ever found. Weighs 24.67 kg.
Who is familiar with the nomenclature of the meteorites will already know, by the prefix NWA, that was found in the northwest of Africa, but, to be more specific, was found in the remote region of Agidity, in the Nigerin the desert of Sara, by a professional meteorites hunter.
O, during the annual series of science auctions at Sotheby’s, known as Geek Week.
