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 Own A Piece Of The Universe! Authentic meteorites... Yes! You can own a meteorite. Most people don't know that meteorites are readily available to the general public. They're not just for viewing at museums and college universities. Anyone can own one, in fact you might even find one in your own back yard. Read the article I wrote on How To Find A Meteorite or check out my links page for tons of great meteorite websites detailing meteorite hunting adventures, photos, news, and other related information.
METEORITE ARTICLES
Hunting The Franconia & Gold Basin Strewnfield:
2 Days, 2 Strewn Fields, 2 Meteorites!
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METEORITES ARE THE COOLEST ROCKS ON EARTH!
Meteorites are the coolest things on the face of the planet, in my humble opinion. They are space rocks, born in fire and have survived their course of travel through space for millions of years before being pulled through our atmosphere in a spectacular fireball to the Earth's surface to be found by a human being. When you experience finding a meteorite, there's a feeling of awe that comes from it that is indescribable. You are the first human being to ever pick up or touch it, feel it, or see it.
This in itself gives you a sense of supreme satisfaction. To make it even more spectacular it comes from space. It's not from this planet! Scientists aren't the only ones with access to meteorites. Don't you want one?
Don't you want to get out there and find one for yourself and experience it? If you can't get out there and find one for yourself you can still buy one from any number of meteorite websites. Visit Meteorite Finder or Meteorites For Sale or my own Meteorite Store
All meteorites sold on Meteorites USA are guaranteed to be 100% Genuine Rocks From Space and your satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed or your money back! Fast Delivery To Your Door Anywhere. We Ship Worldwide! Free Shipping Inside The U.S.A. via USPS Priority Mail for any order over 250g up to 1 pound.
How Much Are Meteorites Worth?
This is a question I get all the time, usually from people who have found or who have recently purchased a meteorite. They usually want to know what the meteorites value is, where they can get it classified, if I would like to buy their meteorite, or where they can sell it. So I figured why not write a short article on how to determine the value of a meteorite...
A meteorite’s value is based on a number of factors including:
• TYPE (ie; stone chondrite, achondrite, stony iron, or iron; Lunar and Martian meteorites are typically worth a great deal more than any other type)
• CLASSIFICATION
• RARITY
• AESTHETICS
• TKW (Total known Weight, Main Mass)
• RECOVERY COST (based on how much it cost the collector or person selling the meteorite to hunt, find, classify and sell)
This list is by no means fully comprehensive in scope. It’s simply some basic variables that help to give you a general idea of the value of meteorites as a whole. Meteorites are rare. Rarer in fact than Gold and diamonds, however their value is determined by numerous variables. Here are a few of the main factors.
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| Iron Meteorites (nickel
iron) |
 Iron meteorites are among some of the
most rare on earth. only about 5% of all meteorites that
fall to earth are irons. That's not much considering meteorites
are rare to begin with. Scientists believe that iron meteorites
are literally at the "core" of planet building
in our universe, and could be how the earth and for that
matter ALL planets were formed. Read this article on "How
To Make A Planet" by the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History. Iron
meteorites are made of a nickel iron alloy, and many
were made into tools and weapons for ancient peoples.
Even more amazing than that, it's theorized that the very
pieces of iron meteorites we hold in our hand today are
some of the very same nickel iron material that helped
form our planet. Is it possible that the meteorites for
sale on this page could possibly have been floating around
our solar
system for millions of years? Tthe meteorites for
sale on this page could possibly have been floating around
our solar
system for millions of years! Could any of these meteorites
that have rocketed through our atmosphere and crashed
into our planet 10s of thousands of years ago be a small
fragment of a planet? |
| Stone
Meteorites
From North West Africa (NWA) UNWA - Unclassified (chondrites) |
 Most
NWA
material is UNCLASSIFIED meteorites found in the northwest
of Africa in the deep reaches of the Sahara Desert. Nomads
travel far out across the barren lands to retrieve these
specimens off the desert floor and bring them back to
Morocco where they are distributed through a network of
meteorite dealers and wholesalers. Almost ALL
meteorites that come from that region of the world in
Africa are not classified because they're moved from their
strewn
fields with no documentation, coordinates, or name
places, which make classification
difficult if not impossible. NWA METEORITES FOR SALE
 For a meteorite to be classified
by the Meteoritical Society it must pass a rigorous number
of scientific tests and be thoroughly documented from
location, type, chemical composition, & many other
tests. Most NWA meteorites cannot be classified due to
the lack of documentation of the find. Many very nice
specimens have been found such as the NWA
2373 Martian Meteorite which is a (basaltic
shergottite) meteorite that sells for over $1000 per
gram. None are here, but these specimens are guaranteed
to be 100% Genuine & Authentic Meteorites and great
for any meteorite collection.
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| Stony Iron Meteorites (Mesosiderite & Pallasite) |
 Stony Iron Meteorites are in a category by themselves. In this category you’ll find Pallasite meteorites, mesosiderites. Pallasites are iron meteorites with large numbers of olivine crystals scattered throughout the nickel iron matrix of the meteorite. Some pallasites like the Esquel Pallasite, have gem quality olivine crystals. Mesosiderites are the other stony iron and are neat little meteorites, because they have about 50% iron and 50% silicate materials making up it’s rich matrix. They’re not exactly as pretty as a pallasite but they’re beautiful in their own right. Image Courtesy Of: Mike Miller - Glorieta Pallasite Meteorite |
| Canyon
Diablo Iron (Octahedrite) Meteorites For Sale |
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 The
Canyon Diablo iron meteorite is the worlds most famous meteorite
from the best preserved meteorite crater on the planet. This crater
was formed some 50,000 plus years ago by a giant iron meteor over
50 meters across weighing in at hundreds of thousands of metric
tons. When it impacted the Earth it displaced more than 100 million
tons of material and scattered fragments of nickel iron meteorite
for up to 15 Kilometers away. The crater itself is a whopping
1.2 kilometers across and over 150 meters deep. The amazing force
of the explosion generated by the impact was greater than 30 megatons
of TNT. Everything within a 5 mile radius is said to have been
obliterated by the concussion shock wave.
We've
got a great selection of Canyon Diablo meteorites for sale. All
are great for any
and all meteorite collections. CD (canyon diablo) meteorites are
some of the most sought after iron meteorites by collectors. Many
pieces are very expensive and can cost as much as $2 per gram
for some sculptured pieces. Check out the ones we have available. IRON
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| Campo del Cielo Iron (Octahedrite) Meteorites For Sale |
 These
are great specimens of Campo meteorite crystals.They make great
gifts anyone. These are 100% genuine meteorites from Campo Del
Cielo in Argentina, South America. Discovered on 1576 by the
spanish. The largest campo ever found is 37 tons. All pieces
are cleaned and polished campo crystal fragments.
Campo
meteorites are very popular among collectors. They're readily
available and and inexpensive meteorite, perfect for the beginning
collector. Campo meteorites are course octahedrite
iron meteorites, and reveal a beautiful pattern when
sliced
and etched. Campos del Cielo meteorites exhibit a wonderful
Widmanstätten
pattern when etched. |
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