Yesterday, we talked about the moon, and today, let's talk about Mars, and then, I promise never to take up space again.
You know what I mean.
One day, while you and I were down here on Earth learning to dance Gangnam style, a large rock broke off Mars’s surface, when an asteroid hit that distant planet. A 54-pound chunk came flying through space and landed 140 million miles away, here on good old Earth. It landed on a desert in northwest Africa, narrowly missing Mar-A-Lago.
Somebody put that old rock in their truck, got it to a New York City auction house, and walked away with almost $5.3 million.
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| It looks like a beef roast done up in the Popeil oven! Just set it and forget it! |
“You get close to it, you can feel like you’re looking at the planet,” Cassandra Hatton, vice chairman for science and natural history at Sotheby’s auctions, told The Washington Post. “There’s a lot of texture and ripples and ridges and such.”
Those ripples and ridges were all tested, you can be sure, to make certain this wasn't some rock from the state park being passed off as Mars.
And the auction house will not reveal the name of the buyer, because he or she does not want everyone showing up at their house asking to see the paperweight they just bought.
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