Sotheby’s to auction largest and most valuable Martian meteorite found on Earth

Sotheby’s to auction largest and most valuable Martian meteorite found on Earth

Sotheby’s has unveiled the largest Martian meteorite ever recovered on Earth, a 54-pound (24.4-kg) specimen known as NWA 16788, ahead of a July 16 auction in New York.

“This is an amazing Martian meteorite that broke off of the Martian surface,” said Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s vice-chairman and global head of science and natural history, noting laboratory tests confirmed its origin after the rock was pulled from the Sahara.

The fragment was discovered on Nov. 16, 2023, by a meteorite hunter in Niger’s remote Agadez region.

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