It weighs almost 25 kilograms, is called “NWA 16788”, comes from about 200 million kilometers away and now has a new owner. We are talking about the largest march meteorite, which was auctioned in New York on Wednesday at a record price.
An anonymous collector breathed around 4.5 million euros (including reimbursements and other extra costs) to come into possession of the meteorite discovered in the Niger in 2023. “NWA 16788” is a rarity between rarity, because only about 400 Mars-Meteorites on earth are known according to the smallest of Sotheby.
It was probably cut off in a violent asteroid impact on Mars and thus reached the earth. The Brocken were previously exhibited at the Italian space agency in Rome. Everyone who has sold the meteorite with the typical red color and the glassy surface of Sotheby’s is unknown.
Dinosaur skeleton brought much more money
The skeleton of a Ceratosaurus -Dinosaurus was also auctioned at the auction on Wednesday, which brought considerably more than the piece of Mars: about $ 30.5 million.
Source: Krone
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