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The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet, Sotheby’s says. It measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches.
This is the first time such an historical and rare piece is auctioned off. Sotheby’s says the eventual buyer of the items is ...
Sotheby's in New York is auctioning a 54-pound meteorite, the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth, with an estimated ...
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Strikes From Two Eocene Asteroids May Not Have Changed Earth’s Climate Long TermLearn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
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A Collision Like No Other: The Devastating Impact of the Asteroid That Hit South AfricaAround 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...
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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 spaceWhen NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
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