The incredibly rare 24.5kg meteorite sold for £3.2m at a New York auction in July
The incredibly rare 24.5kg meteorite sold for £3.2m at a New York auction in July
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The West African country investigates how a space rock found there was put up for sale in New York.
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the largest Martian meteorite ever found was sold for $5 million in New York in July. Suspecting…
Sotheby’s insists the rock was exported legally but Niger, where the meteorite was found, is investigating the sale.
Weighing 240 kilograms, it is thought to be the heaviest of its kind to ever go to auction
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