The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is being auctioned off in New York
This is the first time such an historical and rare piece is auctioned off. Sotheby’s says the eventual buyer of the items is guaranteed to own a piece of history.
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00:00A 25-kilogram rock is being auctioned for a price ranging between $2 and $4 million.
00:07It's so exorbitantly priced because it's the largest piece of Mars ever found on planet Earth.
00:14It's more than double the size of what we previously thought was the largest piece of Mars.
00:20Now we've only taken a small piece of it to study to confirm that it was Martian,
00:24but there's all sorts of interesting data that can be found inside of this rock.
00:30It'll be auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale
00:35that also includes a juvenile dinosaur skeleton.
00:39The skeleton is large, standing at 2 meters in height and 3 meters in length.
00:43It's also incredibly rare.
00:48Juvenile specimens are really, really important.
00:51They're really rare for two reasons.
00:54They were very appetizing to adult dinosaurs.
00:57You know, nice, tender, young dinosaurs.
01:01Much better than an old, you know, stiff dinosaur.
01:06But also their bones were really fine and were much less likely to survive the 154 million year fossilization process.
01:17So we almost never find juvenile dinosaurs.
01:21The fossil is going anywhere from $4 to $6 million.
01:29Sotheby says it's a chance for someone to claim a one-of-a-kind piece of history.
01:33Sotheby's in New York City.
01:35Sotheby says it's a chance for somebody to claim a one-of-a-kind piece of history.
01:37Sotheby says it's a chance for a vampire.
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