The writer is a science commentator
If someone had told me that the lump of rock known as NWA 16788 was going under the hammer this week, I would have happily assumed the encounter was to knock it into shape.
Instead, the object, which looks like a misshapen paving slab smeared with rust, is an unusually large chunk of Mars that is expected to sell for at least $2mn at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday. The 25kg whopper, found two years ago in a remote region of the Sahara Desert, fell to Earth after being dislodged from the Red Planet by an asteroid impact. It is now being marketed as “the largest piece of Mars on Earth”.
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