🇳🇪🔥Niger: the meteorite from Mars discovered in Agadez sold for 5 million dollars in New York
A meteorite was sold for 4.3 million dollars – 5 million dollars including taxes – during an auction in New York on Wednesday, July 16, 2025
📍 Measuring 40 centimeters and weighing approximately 24 kilograms, it is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth
📍 As for its origin, it is said to be the result of a collision with an asteroid that violently struck the planet Mars, sending a fragment of it into space
📍 After a journey through time and space of over 62.1 million kilometers, the meteorite crashed in the Sahara, in Niger
📍 After being exhibited at the Italian Space Agency in Rome, then in a private gallery in Arezzo, Tuscany, the fragment ended up at the Sotheby's auction house
📍 The meteorite thus concluded its journey in the hands of an anonymous buyer...
