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Huge Mars rock from outer area may fetch as much as $4M at prestigious Sotheby’s public sale

Editorial Board Published July 14, 2025
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FOX Enterprise reporter Lauren Simonetti offers an inside take a look at the multi-million-dollar artifacts on the market at Sotheby’s New York Metropolis Geek Week on ‘The Big Money Show.’

The biggest-known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth goes up for public sale on Wednesday and will fetch as a lot as $4 million due to the rareness of an extraterrestrial merchandise.

Sotheby’s public sale home is opening the bidding on a meteorite that it calls “an incredibly rare discovery,” at $1.6 million.

Based on the public sale web site, bidders are bidding on the most important piece of Mars on Earth, which was ejected from the Martian floor by an enormous asteroid strike.

After the strike, the rock traveled 140 million miles by area and hurtled by the Earth’s ambiance earlier than crashing within the Sahara Desert, the New York Metropolis public sale home stated.

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The biggest-ever Martian meteorite is on show for the primary time at Sotheby’s earlier than the public sale in New York Metropolis.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

Dubbed NWA 16788, the rock was found on Nov. 16, 2023 by a meteorite hunter in Niger’s distant Agadez Area.

NWA 16788 is about 70% bigger than the following largest piece of Mars that has ever been discovered on Earth.

Based on the public sale put up, items of Mars are “unbelievably rare.” There are at the moment over 77,000 acknowledged meteorites on Earth, and of these, solely 400 are from Mars and have a mixed weight of 825 kilos.

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Martian Rock For Auction

Sotheby’s stated NWA 16788 weighs 24.67 kilograms, or about 54 kilos, which equates to six.5% of all Martian materials at the moment recognized on Earth.

The 14.75-by-11-by-6-inch meteorite is roofed in what Sotheby’s described as a “reddish-brown fusion crust” which supplies the merchandise an “unmistakable Martian hue.”

NWA 16788 has floor depressions that consultants say shaped from frictional heating because the Martian rock fell by Earth’s ambiance.

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Person takes a picture of the piece of Mars

An individual takes an image of the Martian meteorite. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

It additionally has minimal terrestrial weathering, which the public sale itemizing says signifies its bodily and chemical make-up haven’t been considerably altered since arriving within the Sahara.

“In other words, NWA 16788 is likely a relative newcomer here on Earth, having fallen from outer space rather recently,” Sotheby’s stated.

The meteorite is being auctioned off as a part of Sotheby’s Pure Historical past sale, which options meteorites like NWA 16788, in addition to different pure wonders, minerals and fossils.

One fossil being auctioned is an exhibition-ready mounted skeleton of a juvenile Ceratosaurus nasicornis dinosaur, which may go for $4-$6 million.

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The reside public sale for NWA 16788 begins at 10 a.m. on July 16. Bidding opens up at $1.6 million, and Sotheby’s says it’s estimated to be bought for $2-$4 million.

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