{"id":10234,"date":"2025-07-14T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10234\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:26:05","slug":"largest-mars-meteorite-heads-to-auction-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10234\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Mars Meteorite Heads To Auction Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image--rounded--BnTyA Image--intrinsicRatioElement--bFd9O\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MARSROCKTHUMB3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Play<\/p>\n<p class=\"VideoWithoutPlaylist--activeVideoTitle--fdNSG\">How Much Would You Pay For A Rock From Mars?<\/p>\n<p>Who would pay several million dollars for a hunk of red, brown and gray rock? Well, when that rock is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, there may be plenty of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Sotheby\u2019s will be auctioning off an impressively large chunk of the red planet in New York this week, and their auction estimate sits between $2 million and $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the auction house, the meteorite is believed to have been blown away from the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike before traveling 140 million miles to Earth, where it crashed into the Sahara. The hunk of rock measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches, making it around 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image--rounded--BnTyA Image--intrinsicRatioElement--bFd9O\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/meteorite_5.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The hunk of rock was found in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023. According to Sotheby\u2019s, it represents nearly 7% of all Martian material currently known on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>Senior writer Chris DeWeese edits <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morning Brief<\/a>, The Weather Channel\u2019s newsletter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play How Much Would You Pay For A Rock From Mars? Who would pay several million dollars for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}