“Add to a list of things that may be fun if you have a money -load load of money”: Someone Fork Over $ 5.3 million in a Sutbi Auction To own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet Metorite was discovered in a remote area of the Sahara Sahara in the Niger Desert in 2023.
Martin alka of any size are incredibly rare. To get here, a temptation first collides with the red planet to remove the material from its surface. (Suthebi says only 19 Martin Criters here are so large that it has to travel 140 million miles from space to reach Earth. Of the 77,000+, only 400 formally recognized Alka belong to Mars.
Alka is known as NWA 16788. Its red brown, stained outdoor seems like a red planet surface in almost almost small.
It is also an extraordinary Martin Alka. It is about 70 70 % larger than the second largest piece of Mars found on the earth. It measures 14.75 x 11 x 6 inches and weighs more than £ 54. It is so large to represent about 6.5 % of all the leading materials of Marsh on our planet.
The winning bid was in 3 4.3 million. After the fees, it reaches more than $ 5.3 million, which is the most valuable tragedy ever.
Before bidding, the auction house sent a small piece of space rock to the lab, which clearly confirmed its Martin Chemical composition. More than 21 % of the rock contains masklinite, when a teenage attacked a martin surface, a glass is produced.