Hungarian Abbey Shelves Faces Beetle Invasion Threatening 1000-Year Library
In Pannonhalma Hungary the 1000-year-old abbey library with 400000 volumes is draining 100000 handbound books from shelves to disinfect them. The drugstore beetle infestation prompted nitrogen crates and six weeks of treatment, with restoration chief Ilona Asvanyi warning of cultural losses and climate change fueling pests.
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Largest Mars rock to hit auction at Sotheby's New York
Sotheby's in New York will auction a 54 pound Martian meteorite known as NWA 16788, the largest Mars rock found on Earth, estimated at 2 to 4 million dollars. The item, found in Niger in 2023, measures 15 by 11 by 6 inches and is an olivine microgabbroic shergottite.
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