Sotheby’s, a New York-based auction house, estimates the meteorite could fetch up to $4 million during its natural history sale on Wednesday, July 16. Bidding starts at a cool $1.9 million. Sotheby’s describes NWA 16788 as an “incredibly rare discovery” that traveled 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) through space before plunging into Earth’s atmosphere and crash-landing in the desert.

Floods submerged cars and grounded planes in New Jersey, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. The deluge also hit New York and Pennsylvania.

Storms prompted flash flood warnings across the New York City metropolitan area Monday night, with photos showing severe flooding across the city and in parts of New York state and New Jersey. Heavy rain moved through the region Monday,

Two people were killed in New Jersey during flash flooding as severe storms lashed the New York City area on Monday night into Tuesday, submerging cars and flooding subway stations.