The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.
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- A meteorite from Mars sold for over $5 million at Sotheby's Geek Week auction. 5s
- The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was included in the auction. 10s
- A juvenile dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $30 million, far above its estimate. 18s
- The skeleton was assembled from nearly 140 fossil bones and measures over two metres tall and three metres long. 29s
- The dinosaur is believed to be a Cetrasaurus from the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. 44s