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Largest piece of Mars rock goes for $5.3 million

Largest Mars rock found on Earth sees $4.3M bid at Sotheby's auction

"This is the largest piece of Mars on planet Earth. The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small," Cassandra Hatton, vice chairman of science and natural history at Sotheby's,...

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A massive rock from Mars landed on Earth. It sold for a record $5.3M.

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Largest Mars rock ever found on Earth sells for $4.3m at auction

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Sold: Largest Mars Rock Exceeds Auction Expectations

The auction raised mixed feelings from the scientific community, with some questioning whether we should really put a price-tag on such a rare specimen.

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Who wants to buy a piece of Mars?

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Here’s How Much the ‘Largest Piece of Mars on Earth’ Sold for at Auction

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What the $5.3 Million Martian Meteorite Reveals About Mars—and What It Can’t

There’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.

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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching the Earth Today

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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The largest chunk of Mars on Earth just fetched a meteoric sum at auction, but bidders really bit at a baby dinosaur skeleton

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.