So if the market value of a meteorite is almost impossible to determine, then what's the actual value of the rock from Sumatra? The Arizona professor says it's about 70-80% clay, basically "an ...
It is also offering to buy any other pieces of meteorite rock recovered from the 8 April event. Those who believe they have found a meteorite rock can bring it to the museum for testing.
Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across, to microscopic dust ...
is made entirely of rocks that formed under the intense heat and pressure of the meteorite's impact. By dating those rocks, Erickson and his co-authors were able to pinpoint the exact age of the ...