The world's second largest meteorite was unearthed last weekend in Argentina. It took two days to excavate the Gancedo meteorite, which weighs in at about 30 tons. That makes it the second largest ...
The 54-pound Martian meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, was sold for a record $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York ...
The largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is being auctioned off later this month and could fetch up to $4 million. One of only 400 of its kind ever found, the hunk of red-hued space rock was ...
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The world's biggest Mars rock sold at auction, but Niger wants to know how it got there
It’s not every day a chunk of Mars ends up under the hammer in Manhattan – especially one weighing in at a hefty 25 kilos. But that’s exactly what happened in July when NWA 16788, the largest Martian ...
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When space touches Earth - the meteorite that refuses to get hot
On a scorching summer afternoon at Grootfontein, Namibia, a curious paradox greets every visitor to the Hoba meteorite.Here lies the largest known intact meteorite on Earth, an 80 tonne iron mass ...
The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks ...
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