🚨🇺🇸 $5.3 MILLION FOR A CHUNK OF MARS? YEP... EARTHLING APPROVED A 54-pound Martian meteorite named NWA 16788 just sold at Sotheby’s for a record-breaking $5.3 million - the most ever paid for a space rock. It’s the largest known piece of Mars ever found on Earth, discovered in Niger’s Sahara Desert in 2023 after launching off the Martian surface during an ancient asteroid impact. It survived 140 million miles of deep space and a fiery reentry, landing in just the right patch of desert where someone actually knew what they were looking at. Only about 400 Martian meteorites exist, and none come close to this size. It still has a fusion crust from slamming through Earth’s atmosphere and that unmistakable Martian red. The buyer hasn’t been named... Who wonders if SpaceX offices may have a new knickknack soon? Source: Reuters