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 meteorite.
If you didn’t make the list for Blue Origin’s recent suborbital jaunt to space, why not treat yourself to a consolation prize here on Earth for a fraction of the cost? On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will ...
Chennaoui’s own museum, The Attarik Foundation, holds a 7 gram fragment worth $7,000. The high sale prices of the so-called Tissint Martian pieces reflected their freshness, rarity and origin – Mars – ...
# NASA data for QUE 93069 Weathering: A/B Fracturing: B Pairing: QUE 93069 NTL: 0 ± 0.1 krad The overall shape of this lunar meteorite is approximately one third of a flat ovoid. Thick gray-green ...
# NASA data for ALH 77257 Weathering: Ae Fracturing: B Fa: 14 mol % Fs: 12 mol % ²⁶Al: 38.7 ± 1.5 dpm/kg Approximately one-half of the sample's surface is rounded and mostly covered with fusion crust ...
Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars. The government legalized meteorite exports in 2020, ...