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

KTLA ^ | 07/16/2025

[Bobbyvotes]

You just gotta believe. Don’t you believe in Crypto being valuable as well?

[BenLurkin]

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.

[Bobbyvotes]

How do you know God is real? It’s called faith!

[sit-rep]

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...

[PGR88]

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?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

Wow. When I checked Sotheby's web site last week, the current bid on that skeleton was $3.5M. It went for almost 10x that. It was a spectacular piece, though - congrats to whoever can afford to buy and display that thing in their living room.

[Bobbyvotes]

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.

[Lazamataz]

How do they know it came from Mars?

It says on the bottom, MANUFACTURED PROUDLY BY MARS

[SunkenCiv]

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.

• How do we know where meteorites come from? | Western Australian Museum
• Mars rocks fell in Africa in July [01/18/2012]

[whitney69]

“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

[GreatRoad]

Found in Niger by a meteorite hunter, who is also a Nigerian prince.

[Libloather]

Next auction - a rock from Uranus.

[BenLurkin]

Oh, they are the best.