Meteorites for Sale: Meteorite Buying Guides and Auctions
Meteorite Buying Guides, Advice, and Auctions
Meteorites for sale! Get them while they’re HOT!
It won't be long before you hear this wild proclamation from street corners, well at least from your local neighborhood eBay store because meteorites continue to be the hottest trend among collectors and investors.
As meteorite finds become more scarce the price is expected to skyrocket, that is why some of the top meteorite collectors are sitting pretty, and why many people are flocking to meteorite auctions to get on the craze while the prices are still low.
Four Basic Types of Meteorites - A quick overview
- Iron Meteorites: No doubt they make the best display item and are the best deal. 5.7 percent of the meteorites observed to fall are irons.
- Chondrites: Common stony meteorites, they are the kind that are most often observed to fall--85.7 percent. Because they are hard to find, they are quite rare.
- Achondrites: Extremely rare -- 7.1 percent of falls. These come from the crusts of distant planets including the moon and Mars.
- Stony Iron Meteorites: both rare (1.5 % of falls) and beautiful. From the core-mantle boundary of an ancient planetoid. The Flickr image in the intro is an example.
Have You Ever Found A Meteorite?
More Info on Meteorite Collecting - Advice from the experts on buying meteorites
Here is a list of buying guides, interviews and other resources to consider before buying meteorites on eBay as a collector or as a gift.
Purchase Meteorite Guides - For those curious to learn more
- Meteorite Buying Guide
eBay guide to buying meteorites. What to look for and what to watch out for. - A Guide to Moldavite
Moldavite is a very rare tektite (glass) that is believed to have formed during meteorite impacts approximately 15,000,000 years ago. - How to Buy a Meteorite
Listen to the National Public Radio interview with Robert Haig, an Arizona meteorite broker on the booming meteorite market. - International Meteorite Collectors Association
A community of amateur and professional meteorite collectors. If you are looking to buy a meteorite from eBay or elsewhere check here first to verify the authenticity. - Mile High Meteorites
Mile High Meteorites was established in 1996, one of the first meteorite businesses on the internet. It soon became THE place where beginning and experienced collectors could purchase rare and exotic meteorites. The wonderful Esquel pallasite photo u
Meteorite Watches: A Collectible Treasure
Where Do Rolex Meteorite Dials Come From?
If you can't find the time to collect meteorites let someone else do all the hard work and buy a Rolex embedded with meteorites!
This is the ultimate way to say hey, I'm worth it!
All Rolex meteorite dials are made from slices of the Gibeon meteorite which fell to earth some 12,000 years ago in a blistering path 70 miles wide by 230 miles long. This precious meteorite field was discovered in 1836 in Great Namaqualand, Namibia, Africa.
While specimens of the Gibeon meteroite are some of the most common on the market they are still quite rare as the Namibian government has banned the export and sale of this precious material.
The beautiful patterns or "Widmanstatten Figures" are actually two crystallized iron and nickel alloys (Taenite and Kamacite) which cooled and crystallized under precise conditions and temperatures over 4 billion years ago!
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Do You Collect Meteorites? Share Your Story...
My dad is really into things like this: meteorites, arrow-heads, that kind of stuff. Cool lens.
Cool, I never thought about collecting meteorites...but that would be something I think would be fun.
I adore fossils.. but I had never thought of the option of buying meteorites before! Blessed!
i am kindly requesting you to assist me to sell my iron meteorite collected in Balambala, north eastern part of kenya on 5th august 2009 , weight 65KG and approximate dimensions of 16.5cm widht.
a sample was tested in the lab of the mind and geological department of kenya on 22nd marc and h 2010 and was confirmed that is an iron meteorite consisting of
IRON AS FA 87.8%
NICKEL AS NI 11.9%
TITANIUM AS TI 0.31%
and was issued a certificate.
i have attached photos of meteorite and the testing certificate from the ministry of environmental and mineral resources of Kenya.
i can provide asample for test if you require.
salahdin05@hotmail.com
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@Heather426: Wow that's awesome - hope they are worth a ton. :) We used to collect petrified wood when we were kids but I don't think I've ever run across a meteorite.
wow, I have tons of meteorites. Have always collected them. Had no idea they were worth money. Thanks!
A hearty SquidAngel Blessing for you, Rusty. This is so interesting! 5*s
I had no idea it was that expensive. Use to sell Rolex with the meteorite dial...$105,000! Now I can see why.
Layne
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Rusty, I'm putting this on a new feature page for the Mall on Squidoo! Always fabulous stuff- let's try to get you some traffic!
Beautiful ,very nice specimen pictures here too.
Great information. Kudos. 5 Stars :)
What a great topic for a lens, I gave you 5 stars. I finished reading your lens with the hope you will give us more in the future. Great job. All the Best, Karen at Karen's Kinkade Art Store
And I thought that I had a problem with spending money on useless stuff. Oh well, I guess I'll just add meteorite to the list now too ;)
Rusty, Splendid stuff simply slips from your stylus onto Squidoo! Your lenses are delightful. 'Tis a pleasure to have you at the Kaleidoscope Group. Lensroll: Meteor Mania!
Congratuations! Your lens has been selected as the Featured Lens of the Week in the Got Something to Sell? group!
Great lens, but how do they find meteorites? talk about looking for a needle in a haystack.
Great Lens!
Very interesting Lens, and great resources. Thanks!
Nice....
I would have never known that Meteorites were on sale if not for you!
Maybe its time that I go get my self one of those Meteorites.. What do u say?
Ok...Now THIS is interesting! I can see procrastinators coming here to waste time!
meteorites on ebay! classic. nice lens.
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