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An iron meteorite weighing 240 kilos will be auctioned off in Noorwijk at the end of August to help fund a new planetarium in ...
A massive 240-kilogram iron meteorite, believed to be 4.6 billion years old, is set to be auctioned later this summer in a ...
The Mercurius Planetarium (Sterrenwacht Mercurius) is expected to auction off a 4,6-billion-year-old meteorite to keep the Dutch observatory afloat.
The martian meteor, which is the largest in history, just sold to a private buyer for $5.3M in auction. This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week ...
The largest known Martian meteorite, NWA 16788, has been sold at auction for $5.3 million. The hefty chunk of the Red Planet, which weighs 54 pounds, could help unravel new secrets about Mars ...
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 ...
A 54-pound Martian meteorite, the largest ever discovered on Earth, sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby’s. Learn about its origin, scientific significance, and the debate over private ownership.
Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research ...
There are only 400 Martian meteorites out of the more than 77,000 officially recognised meteorites found on Earth, the auction house says. “This Martian meteorite is the largest piece of Mars we have ...
Scientists Have Never Confirmed a Meteorite From Mercury. Could These Space Rocks From the Desert Be the First? Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to the innermost ...
FOX 35 speaks with Seminole State's Derek Demeter about his interesting meteorite find in Chile.
Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the innermost planet yet?