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One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for as much as $4 million, according to the auction house.

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Credit: AP A meteorite, which is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth, is expected to fetch up to $4 million (£3.5 million) when it goes up for auction.

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Such discoveries are incredibly rare, with the vast majority of space rocks burning up in the atmosphere before reaching Earth. To put it into context, only about 15 meteorites are found in the U ...

Meteorites are whatever bits of rock are left after an asteroid or comet passes through Earth's atmosphere. Sotheby's auction house described the meteorite, a reddish brown rock, as "unbelievably rare ...