Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/mars_rock_auction/

Videos The largest chunk of Mars yet discovered on Earth, a 54-pound (25kg) chunk of the Red Planet, has been purchased at auction for $5.3 million by an unknown bidder. The meteorite, dubbed NWA 16788, was discovered in the Sahara Desert on July 16, 2023, and is thought to have been blasted off the Martian surface by an impact from another meteorite. …

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Well, the mass of Mars is 6.4×10²³ kilograms, so if a 25 kg chunk of it is worth $5.3 million, that means the whole planet Mars is worth like 2.56×10²² x $5.3 × 10⁶ = $1.36×10²⁹ if I did my math right.

So that means all of Mars is worth 136 octillion dollars! 🙂