Largest piece of Mars rock goes for $5.3 million
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What the $5.3 Million Martian Meteorite Reveals About Mars—and What It Can’tThere’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet.” In those words, geochemist Ralph Harvey encapsulates the scientific significance behind the record-breaking sale of a 54-pound Martian meteorite at Sotheby’s in New York.
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The 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, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.