Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

Add this to the list of “things that can be fun if you had a fish of money”: someone forked More than $ 5.3 million in a Sotheby auction To have a piece of Mars. The red planet meteorite was found in the remote area of the desert desert in Niger in 2023.

Martian meteorites are quite rare in any size. To go here, an asteroid first hits the red planet to remove material from the surface. (Sotheby’s, it says that this is a total of 19 syrupy crathers that are large enough to spit.) He must travel 140 million miles from space to reach the earth. 77,000+ officials are officially recognized by 400 of Mars.

Meteorite is known as NWA 16788. Its reddish-brown, terrible external, almost like the surface of the red planet in miniature.

This is a very large Martian meteorite. About 70 percent larger than the second largest part of Mars. 14.75 x 11 x 6 inches and measures 54 pounds weighing. It is enough to represent about 6.5 percent of all well-known Martian material on our planet.

The winning offer was 4.3 million dollars. After datness, this is more than $ 5.3 million, which has become the most valuable meteorite sold to this day.

Before the tender, the auction house sent a small portion of the space rock to a laboratory confirming the chemical composition of Martian. Maskelynite more than 21 percent of the rock, a glass is produced when hitting the surface of the asteroid Marti.