Source NBC
Posted on 07/16/2025 11:22:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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.
Source NBC
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 immediately disclosed. The final bid was $4.3 million. Adding various fees and costs, the official bid price was about $5.3 million.
Two advance bids of $1.9 million and $2 million were submitted. The live bidding went slower than for many other objects that were sold, with the auctioneer trying to coax more offers and decreasing the $200,000 to $300,000 bid intervals to $100,000 after the proposals hit $4 million.
Source KTLA
Bidding for the juvenile Ceratosaurus nasicornis dinosaur skeleton started with a high advance bid of $6 million, then escalated with offers $500,000 higher than the last and later $1 million higher than the last before ending at $26 million. The official sale price was $30.5 million with fees and costs. The original estimate was $4 million to $6 million.
Parts of the skeleton were found in 1996 near Laramie, Wyoming, at Bone Cabin Quarry, a gold mine for dinosaur bones. It’s more than 6 feet (2 meters) tall and nearly 11 feet (3 meters) long.
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You just gotta believe. Don’t you believe in Crypto being valuable as well?
I think mostly they are confident that there are people with boatloads of money out there, and it’s burning $30 million holes in their pockets.
How do you know God is real? It’s called faith!
that crypto chaps me a little!! My kid try’d talking me into getting into it back when it was like $00.50... and now its what? 110K plus!??
Definitely one of those “I should have” moments in life!! lol...
I can only imagine the price of this dropping in the future
Doesn’t Elon Musk want to mine Mars and bring massive quantities of Mars’ rocks back to earth?
You will be happy when it drops in half within a few months.
Many items were cheap at one time. Amazon, Apple, Google, etc were single digit stocks at one time. But so were ten thousand other penny stocks who never made it.
It says on the bottom, MANUFACTURED PROUDLY BY MARS
It's a male rock. Men are from Mars...
Composition -- and there have been probes on the surface of Mars doing remote geology since the 1970s -- and age of the meteorite -- most Solar System debris is over 4 billion years old, rocks from Mars are much younger.
“Did it have the “made in Mars” insignia on it?”
It read, “Made in Vietnam” and was sold originally by a guy on a street corner in Queens out of a suitcase that, also, had watches in it.
wy69
Found in Niger by a meteorite hunter, who is also a Nigerian prince.
Next auction - a rock from Uranus.
Oh, they are the best.
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