Teh largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on wednesday.But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it fetched more than $30 million in a bidding frenzy.The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and traveling 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) to Earth, according to Sotheby’s. The estimated sale price before the auction was $2 million to $4 million.
The identity of the buyer was not instantly disclosed. The final bid was $4.3 million. Adding various fees and costs, the official sale price was about $5.3 million, making it the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction, Sotheby’s said.A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New York, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, part of their Geek Week auction, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)A large Martian meteorite is up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York, with bidding starting at $680,000.The meteorite, known as “The Wanderer,” weighs 55 pounds (25 kilograms) and is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth, according to Sotheby’s. It measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches (375 millimeters by 279 millimeters by 152 millimeters).
Ther are only 400 Martian meteorites out of the more than 77,000 officially recognized meteorites found on Earth.
“This Martian meteorite is the largest piece of Mars we have ever found by a long shot,” Cassandra Hatton, vice chairman for science and natural history at Sotheby’s, said. “So it’s more than double the size of what we previously thought was the largest piece of Mars.”
It’s not clear exactly when the meteorite was blasted off the surface of Mars,but testing showed it probably happened in recent years.A mounted Juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton, of the Late Jurassic, kimmeridgian Stage, approximately 154-149 million years ago, estimated at $4 – 6 million, is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New York, Wednesday, july 9, 2025, part of their Geek Week auction, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)The provided text consists of HTML and JavaScript code related to the Facebook JavaScript SDK. It appears to be a snippet designed to initialize the SDK on a webpage, enabling Facebook social plugins and functionalities. The code sets the appId, enables xfbml (Facebook Markup Language), and specifies the SDK version. The JavaScript function dynamically loads the SDK script into the document.
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