Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction

KTLA ^ | 07/16/2025

[BenLurkin]

$26 million for the dinosaur skeleton

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I just happen to have one of those in my back yard!

[SunkenCiv]

• Thanks! The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York [07/13/2025]

[Fungi]

Did it have the “made in Mars” insignia on it? Sort of like the coin dated “3 B.C.”

[BenLurkin]

Yes. Made on Mars by ACME corporation.

[VAFreedom]

wow all this time.... can you imagine the value of entire mars.... can we blow it up and sell to people piece by piece.

[Larry Lucido]

after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and traveling 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) to Earth

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Man, what are the odds?

Was the usual 20% tariff collected?

[BenLurkin]

Not only that, think of all the Martian dinosaur skeletons that you’ll find.

[from occupied ga]

Fast forward 150 years. What’s this piece of rock doing in great grandad’s estate? I dunno. Looks just like any old piece of rock to me. Throw it out.

[BenLurkin]

https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

In 5 years, it will be worth nothing after musk starts mining.

[MtnClimber]

I wonder what I could get for a chunk of Erf from before global warming/climate change melted everything?

[GingisK]

How do they know it came from Mars?

[Fresh Wind]

No wonder Musk wants to go to Mars.

[sit-rep]

and how exactly do they know so confidently that it is indeed from mars?

[SkyDancer]

Heck, we got dozens of rocks on our hillside that look just like that .... I wonder if .....

[TheThirdRuffian]

How do they know it’s from Mars?

[Bobbyvotes]

If you look closely, it says made in China :)

[BenLurkin]

I think there’s a piece of the last ice age still in the back of my freezer.