A prime specimen will easily fetch $50/gram while rare examples of lunar and Martian meteorites may sell for $1,000/gram or more — almost forty times the current price of gold!Meteorite with historic labels: A 197.2-gram Henbury iron found in Australia in the mid-1930s, surrounded by a...
The reason may be, at least partly, price. Toledano declined to disclose how much the fragment used for the B/1M cost, but he noted that raw meteorite can sell for more per gram than gold. The prototype watch was estimated to fetch between $8,000 and $16,000 when it appeared at the...
2) Lunar meteorite. Lunar meteorite sold for $500-$1000 per gram. If you had bought several kilos of lunar back then, you would be losing your shirt now. Lunar now retails in the neighborhood of $100 per gram, sometimes lower, and a lot lower at wholesale. I know guys sitting on ...
Comments Off:Lorton Meteoritemore... Aerospace engineer and meteor scientist Rob Matson has taken a first crack at an estimated strewnfield for the Lorton meteorite. Since no video of the event has yet been released, Rob used multiple witness reports, radar data, the hammer stone location and...
He said it's hard to put a price tag on meteorites, despite the $25,000 US prize being offered by the museum. He said it all depends on how many kilograms are out there, the type of meteorite and other factors. If Vargas were to find a meteorite on his hunt t...