are meteorites valuable?

Question

are meteorites avaluable, and if so, where can i sell one. and how much are they worth? aproxamately

Answer 1

It really depends, most of the meteorites sold these days are iron, and are common enough to not be all that expensive, you could but a nice size chunk of one for less than $100US, as they generally go for between $0.50 and $5 a gram. The stoney meteorites fetch a higher price as they are harder to find, expect them to be worth $2 to $20 a gram. The ones that are quite pricey are the ones that are either: nice looking as jewelry, or very rare.

There are a number of stoney-iron meteorites that are quite expensive as the combination of jigsaw-like metal and gem-crystal makes them very "pretty." The real rare ones come from mars and the moon, and, along with the stoney-irons sell for $1000's of dollars a gram.

Also, as a tip - Ebay is has a pretty large selection of fake meteorites, watch out!

Answer 2

A meteoroid which reaches the ground is called a meteorite. A small number of meteorites have been found which scientists believe originated on the Moon or Mars. The composition of meteorites give us valuable information about the universe. Meteorites typically fall into one of five categories.

Answer 3

It depends on what type they are and how large they are and whether they're authentic. In general, the more common small ones are not very costly. Search the net for meteorite vendors and e-bay is loaded with them.

Answer 4

Yes, meteorites are valuable..
Different ones are worth different amounts...
I don't know the criteria for value...

Answer 5

Yes they are. Only a few ounces can be worth a few thousand dollars. But even more valuable is the information about our universe contained in them.

Answer 6

i was in geneva, switzerland last month and i saw this neclace with a meteorite pendant about the size of a whole thumbnail. it was selling for CHF999. i have no idea if it's the real deal but it looks genuine enuf for me

Answer 7

with out clean photograph it quite is impossible to be one hundred% optimistic however the outline you have given on your specimen and the area of the locate make it quite much quite neither a meteorite nor steel yet a around nodule of the mineral Marcasite that's FeS2 and is dimorphous with Pyrite. The brown coating is as a results of weathering and is a mix of distinctive iron oxides. in case you wreck the nodule in 0.5 you will locate it white or faded yellow with a remarkable steel lustre and a radiating shape, it quite is extremely undemanding to mistake this mineral for a steel in easy terms on its visual charm. those nodules are very easy interior the chalk factors if southern England. they have been given many fanciful names interior the previous inclusive of "thunderbolts" and "fairy cannon balls" As infants we used to convey mutually them, in specific the small ones which made large ammunition for catapults.

Answer 8

The rocky ones are much more valuable than the iron ones.

Answer 9

Hi. They are of value only to the curious. I gave the only one I had to my nephew because he was curious about how it came to be. (Since it was iron it was formed in the core of a star, like all iron.) So the worth? Priceless.

Answer 10

possibly