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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
A Mars rock was expected to sell at auction for $4 million. The final bid was for more
A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a record $5.3 million.
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Scientists tracking ‘interstellar’ object that has come to us from another solar system
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration told The Associated Press that it is monitoring the situation ... Its aspect ratio, which is greater than that of any asteroid or comet observed in ...
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Astronomers track object that may have originated outside the solar system
It's too soon to know whether the object, designated for now as A11pl3Z, is a rocky asteroid or a icy comet, or how big and what shape it is. More observations are needed to confirm its origins.