You want a big piece of Mars? Would be yours – for $ 4m US
Selling: A rock of 25 pounds. Working price for auction: $ 2 million to $ 4 million to $ 4 million. Why is it too expensive? It is a large part of Mars ever found in the world.
Sothework in New York will be auction to be a NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of the Natural History Dinosaur Skeleton Skeleton 3 feet long.
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HUD, Brown and Hunk is about 70 percent of the next majority of mars found in the world and represents about seven percent of the Martian items right now, said Sotheby. It measures about 375 millimeters in 279 millimeters in 152 millimeters.
“The Martian man is the largest Mars’ marty who has been found by a long shot,” Cassandra Hatton, a science chairman and the environmental history, said the discussion.
And it’s an extraordinary find. There are only 400 meteorites more than 77,000 meteorites found in the world, Stebe said.
Hatton said the small piece of planet was redduced and was sent to this specialized this special lab that came from Mars. Compared to different chemical formats of Meteo mentian are available during the Viking space investigation in 1976, said.
The test found that “Olivine-microgabbroic Sherbottite,” Type of Martian Rock built with a slow cooling of Martian Magma. It has a fried course of study and contains Pyroxine minerals and Olivine, Sethodey said.
It also has a glass full of glass, possible due to the hotter temperature when falling into the atmosphere, Hatton said. “That was the first reference to the fact that this was not just a big stone on the ground,” he said.
Meteorite previously was shown in Italian Space Agency in Rome. Sotheby did not expose the owner.
It is not clear that the meteorite beats the world, but the test showing that perhaps occurred in recent years, Sethodey said.
Dino Auction
The Juvenile Ceratosaurus Nasiconis Skeleton was discovered in 1996 near Lamie, WYO. Experts gather about about 140 bones with bones that have a shaped objects to rebuild the bones and save it so ready to show, said Steben.
The bones are believed to appear in the jurassic period late, about 150 million years ago, Soteby said. Its auction limit is $ 4 million to $ 6 million US.
Ceratosaurus Dinosaurus were Bipeds with short arms that seem like Tyrannosaurus Rex, but they are small. The Dinosaurs of the ceratosaurus can grow up to 7.6 meters in length, and Tyrannnosaurus Rex can be 12 feet long.
The bones were found last year by Fosilogic, Utah-based preparation and growing company.
Wednesday is part of Souek of the Week of Lesite 2025 and includes 122 objects, including other meteorites, Fossiles and quality minerals.