A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, will be sold to the highest bidder later this month in a Sotheby’s auction that is expected to rake in between $2 million and $4 million.
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Whenever i see headlines like this all I hear is Belathor in Skyrim saying “eeeeevery things for sale”.
How is it a meteorite from Mars? Can anyone explain that?
This is going to look so cool in some billionaires 7th vacation home
It’s an absolute shame that objects of such significant scientific value are just sold off to private collections.
After all the controversy over who owned the T-Rex fossil Sue, it went up for auction. Imagine if other groups hadn’t pitched in so that the Field Museum could win the bid.
Gee, I wonder which Mars-obsessed billionaire will buy it.
Insulting to the human race that it’s up for auction by the elite. Human endeavors into the universe we live in mean nothing compared to them accumulating and flaunting more wealth.
I am some lunch changes to spare. Where can I buy?
To quote an esteemed archeologist: it belongs in a museum!
Whoever buys this is gonna have some awesome bullets for space assassinations in 100 years.
Makes you wonder about how much cool stuff there is that we’ll never know about because some rich a-hole has it hidden somewhere.
Maybe some rich millionaire who really wants human lives to exist in Mars will spend some money on it.
This might be a dumb question, but If we are spending billions to bring rocks back from there, why don’t they use this one?
Some good news is that we have lots of Martian meteorite samples available for both scientific and personal collections. Not this big, of course, but a diversity of samples that are far more scientifically and visually interesting. I have a few in my collection. While meteorites are rare, they are more accessible than you might think.
>It’s thought to be over 4.5 million years old, possibly older than Earth, and weighs more than 2,200 pounds.
TIL the Earth is around 4.5 million years old. I think someone didn’t edit this article correctly.