{"id":3020,"date":"2025-07-16T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/massive-piece-of-mars-set-to-sell-for-millions-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:18:53","slug":"massive-piece-of-mars-set-to-sell-for-millions-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/massive-piece-of-mars-set-to-sell-for-millions-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive piece of Mars set to sell for millions in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-16 14:18:52<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A large chunk of Mars is going up for auction in New York.<BR><br \/>\nThe ginormous 25kg rock, named NWA 16788, will go under the hammer at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York on Wednesday (16.07.25).<BR><br \/>\nOwning a piece of the Red Planet will come at an eye-watering cost, as the rock is expected to sell for \u00a31.5-3 million ($2-4 million).<BR><br \/>\nThe meteorite &#8211; which was discovered in Niger in 2023 &#8211; measures 15 by 11 by six inches and is almost 70 per cent larger than any previous asteroid ever found. <BR><br \/>\nIt represents seven per cent of all Martian material present on Earth.<BR><br \/>\nCassandra Hatton, vice chairman for science and natural history at Sotheby&#8217;s, said: &#8220;This Martian meteorite is the largest piece of Mars we have ever found by a long shot.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;So it&#8217;s more than double the size of what we previously thought was the largest piece of Mars.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-16 14:18:52 A large chunk of Mars is going up for auction in New York. The ginormous 25kg rock, named NWA 16788, will go under the hammer at a special&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}