Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show
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The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
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    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