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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$26 million for the dinosaur skeleton
I just happen to have one of those in my back yard!
Did it have the “made in Mars” insignia on it? Sort of like the coin dated “3 B.C.”
Yes. Made on Mars by ACME corporation.
wow all this time.... can you imagine the value of entire mars.... can we blow it up and sell to people piece by piece.
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?
Not only that, think of all the Martian dinosaur skeletons that you’ll find.
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.
In 5 years, it will be worth nothing after musk starts mining.
I wonder what I could get for a chunk of Erf from before global warming/climate change melted everything?
How do they know it came from Mars?
No wonder Musk wants to go to Mars.
and how exactly do they know so confidently that it is indeed from mars?
Heck, we got dozens of rocks on our hillside that look just like that .... I wonder if .....
How do they know it’s from Mars?
If you look closely, it says made in China :)
I think there’s a piece of the last ice age still in the back of my freezer.
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