How a Maine museum lost the largest piece of Mars on Earth | NYGazet

Earlier this month, Sotheby’s in New York auctioned the 54-pound rock to an undisclosed buyer for $5.3 million.

Sometime in the very distant past, an asteroid hit Mars with such force that rocks from the surface of the planet were launched into space. After drifting through the solar system, possibly for millions of years, some of these unlikely meteoroids int... [6606 chars]