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The new owner of NWA 16788, the largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth, is rumored to be a well-known Italian gallery owner, Adnkronos reported. The extraterrestrial rock was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in New York for the record sum of $5.3 million. The 54-pound meteorite was discovered in 2023 in the Nigerian Sahara and had been entrusted to a research team from the University of Florence, led by Giovanni Pratesi, professor of mineralogy, who studied its composition and origin in detail. Two fragments of the meteorite will remain at the University of Florence as specimens available to the international scientific community.
