Are meteorites valuable?

The Gnome

I have one back home a bit bigger than my fist. I found it ages ago while I was back in primary school. I had it positively identified by a museum and then forgot about it.

Anyway I was recently watching a documentary saying that they are quite rare. So does anyone know if it is worth anything? Should I lock it up in a vault? Who would buy such a thing? And more importantly, have I been infected with deadly space dust?

humanji

It's mainly worthless, but you could sell it for a pretty penny on eBay. As for infection, since getting the meteorite, have you suffered from headaches, nausia, sores or tentacle growth?

Redshift

Could be worth quite a bit to a collector, try asking on the Astronomy forum.

joejoem

The Gnome wrote:

I have one back home a bit bigger than my fist. I found it ages ago while I was back in primary school. I had it positively identified by a museum and then forgot about it.

Anyway I was recently watching a documentary saying that they are quite rare. So does anyone know if it is worth anything? Should I lock it up in a vault? Who would buy such a thing? And more importantly, have I been infected with deadly space dust?

Insert Meteor Girls Joke Here

Kojak

Could be quite valuable if you found dome form of life in it. Not aliens or such but frozen bacteria etc.

joejoem wrote:

Insert Meteor Girls Joke Here

The Meteor girls themselves, they are both a joke anyways.

joejoem

Kojak wrote:

Could be quite valuable if you found dome form of life in it. Not aliens or such but frozen bacteria etc.



The Meteor girls themselves, they are both a joke anyways.

Herehttp://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/voting/category.asp?id=5 is a joke. I hate that fathead

monkeyfudge

This just reminded me of that old Creepshow movie.

Wasn't there a guy in that who touched a glowing green meteor and then he started to turn into a glowing green meteor himself...? that was cool...

LovelyHurling

Wow well if it came from space Id say it must be worth a pretty penny - take a look at moon rocks, for example. essentially all that stuff just boils down to Carbon like the rest of the stinking universe (what a bore), but collectors would love the novelty. Just wondering, how do they know it came from space btw? I found what I thought was a meteor when I was in primary school, but turned out it was a burned rock from a woodfire. Hero worship always did elude me...

December Son

monkeyfudge wrote:

This just reminded me of that old Creepshow movie.

Wasn't there a guy in that who touched a glowing green meteor and then he started to turn into a glowing green meteor himself...? that was cool...

nonono you got it all wrong. Grass started growing around the meteor, he touched it, and grass started growing out of him until he blew his head off with a shotgun

The Gnome

LovelyHurling wrote:

Just wondering, how do they know it came from space btw?

It was tested for elements rare on Earth but plentiful elsewhere like iridium etc. I like the eBay idea. If people are willing to but jars or Irish air then someone must want my meteorite bad. I may even start a for sale thread here...

As to the tentacle/green glow, it's a no show. Maybe I had to be hit by it.








...Damn.