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For sale: A 25-kilogram rock. Estimated auction price: up to $6 million
New York: For sale: A 25-kilogram rock. Estimated auction price: $US2 million to $US4 million ($6 million). Why so expensive?
Martian meteorite expected to sell for $2 million at auction in New York
Among items going up for auction at Sotheby's in New York is a 54-pound rock that the auction house calls the largest piece ...
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
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Strikes From Two Eocene Asteroids May Not Have Changed Earth’s Climate Long Term
Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.
Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
INVENTOR EYE on MSN1d
A Collision Like No Other: The Devastating Impact of the Asteroid That Hit South Africa
Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...
The Body Optimist on MSN4d
An asteroid could hit the Moon (and offer a rare phenomenon)
Soon, an exceptional astronomical event could occur before our eyes: a large asteroid, nicknamed "City Killer," threatens to ...
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...