The “main mass” of the world famous Fukang Meteorite is to go under the hammer with an expected sale price of US$1 million - an entrepreneurial opportunity of the highest order.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $5.3 million after a 15-minute bidding war to quickly become the most ...

The rare meteorite is made from stony-iron pallasite, which contains olivine crystals. Christie’s has been running a meteorite sale every year since 2014. Last year, all 75 ...

Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

Christie’s online-only auction “Deep Impact”: Martian, lunar and other rare meteorites, features rare meteorites, some of which originate from the moon and Mars.

Meteorites, those bits of ... Photos of Meteorites for Sale. ... This meteorite, found in China's Gobi Desert, is a pallasite, a class of stony-iron meteorites that contain the mineral olivine.

A natural history favorite. This smaller fragment, a 1.6-ounce (46-gram) coal-colored rock, was among a selection of meteorites that Heritage Auction offered for sale on May 20.

It was subsequently cut in half, with one portion going into the commercial meteorite market—“if you go to a gem and mineral show and you see a pallasite, there’s a good chance it’ll be Fukang,” says ...

Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are believed to form between the silicate mantle, or outer shell, and molten metal core of a differentiated asteroid (asteroids that ...

No mission to Mars has ever brought back rocks, but pieces of the Red Planet have turned up on Earth. In late May, a Mars rock, small enough to fit easily into in an adult’s palm and covered in ...