The largest known Martian meteorite, NWA 16788, has been sold at auction for $5.3 million. The hefty chunk of the Red Planet, ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth is now the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction after it achieved $5.3 million in the Natural History sale during Sotheby's Geek Week. #AuctionUpdate The ...

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The object is what’s known as a “shergottite meteorite,” which is the most common type of meteorite from Mars. Scientists believe these fragments, which are named after the Shergotty ...

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Most meteorites are black on the outside, thanks to their superheated passage through Earth’s atmosphere, but NWA 7034 was black on the inside as well. “It also had other colors — patches of ...

Around 400 Martian meteorites are known worldwide, and most of them are in small bits. NWA 16788 is so big that by itself, it accounts for 6.5 percent of all the Martian material present on Earth.

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.

The largest-known chunk, a meteorite called NWA 16788, just cleaned up at Sotheby’s with a $5.3 million haul against a $2 million–$4 million estimate.