The biggest piece of Mars will be auctioned on Earth, know when and where this stone was found

New York: A stone of 54 pounds (25 kg) for sale. Estimated auction price between $ 2 million to $ 40 million. why so expensive? It is the largest piece of Mars found on Earth so far. The auction house in New York ‘Sothabi’ on Wednesday will keep an item named ‘NWA 16788’ as a part of the auction based on the natural history theme. Along with this, the skeleton of a teenage ‘Seratosorus dinosaur’ will also be kept for auction, which is more than six feet high and about 11 feet tall.

Where was the piece of Mars found?

According to the auction house, it is believed that this meteorite flew from the surface of Mars to the Earth by flying a distance of 14 million miles due to a huge asteroid collision, where it fell into the desert. Sothabi says that this piece of Mars was found in Niger in November 2023.

Biggest Piece of Mars on Earth

‘This is a rare find’

According to the auction house, this piece of red, brown and gray colored is about 70 percent larger than the largest piece of Mars found earlier on Earth and is about seven percent of the current Mars currently present on this planet. Cassandra Haton, vice president of science and natural history in Sothabi, said in an interview, “This is the biggest piece of Mars so far. This is more than double the size that we first considered the biggest piece of Mars. ”This is also a rare discovery.

Special investigation conducted in laboratory

Sothabi says that out of over 77,000 officially recognized meteorites found on Earth, only 400 are meteorites of Mars. Haton said that a small piece of red planet was taken and sent to a particular laboratory, where it was confirmed that it was a piece of Mars. He said that it has been compared to the specific chemical composition of meteorites of Mars discovered during the Viking spacecraft landing on Mars in 1976. According to Sothabi, the investigation found that it is a “Olivine-Microgenbroyic Shergotite”, which is a type of rock made from the slow cool of the magma of Mars.

Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton

Dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned

According to Sothabi, the skeleton of Kishore Ceratosorus Nasikornis Dinosaur was found in 1996 in Bone Cabin Quarry near Larami, Vyoming. Experts combined about 140 fossil bones with some fabricated materials to make the skeleton a dobbobe and install it in such a way that it would be ready for the exhibition. The auction house said that this skeleton is believed to be of the latter half of the Jurassic period about 150 million years ago. Its auction estimates the price price of 40 lakh to 60 million dollars. Wednesday’s auction is part of Sothabi’s Geek Week 2025 and contains 122 items, including other meteorites, fossils and gems, minerals. (AP)

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