Seeing that Li Xuemin still didn't agree, Han Kongque said with a smile: "This kind of Martian meteorite also has a very high collection value. Now the international transaction price of meteorites changes year by year. It's not impossible for the value to double after a few years of collection."
possible."
"Didn't you just say that the market is very complicated?" Li Xuemin was stunned.
Han Peacock said with a smile: "It's because good things are mixed together, so good things are more precious."
"You said this thing is very precious?" At this time, the rough stone was in Qin Mingyue's hand. She looked over and over, but she didn't see how precious this stone was.
"Of course, this thing is very precious. There are many good and bad people on the market now. If you don't have professional identification knowledge, it is very common to be deceived, so it is easy for people to not believe the seller. If you really have solid professional knowledge, go to Taobao
It’s too easy to pick up leaks,” Han Kongque said.
Qin Mingyue said contemptuously: "So you missed it again this time?"
Nowadays, limited by the level of science and technology, the number of meteorites is rare, so they are still very valuable for collection.
Meteorites are fragments from other celestial bodies in the solar system other than the earth. Most of them come from asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, and a few come from the moon and Mars. So far, more than 40,000 meteorite samples have been collected around the world.
They can be roughly divided into three major categories: stony meteorites (main component is silicate), iron meteorites (iron-nickel alloy), and stony iron meteorites (mixture of iron and silicate).
As the saying goes, "foreign monks can chant sutras", and foreign stones are also very popular. Since the 1970s, the price of meteorites has been almost the same as gold.
Subsequently, it continued to appreciate at an annual rate of 30% to 50%.
To this day, the market has become very speculative. The most common meteorites on the market now cost US$500 to US$600 per gram, while rare meteorites can fetch US$3,000 to US$6,000 per gram.
Of course, such rare meteorites usually come from a well-known family, and their identity can be confirmed. Naturally, the price is high, and many people are willing to buy them.
However, if it is held privately, it is more troublesome. The most troublesome thing is that it cannot prove its origin.
So now there is a polarization. On the one hand, the price of meteorites is very high, but on the other hand, no one cares about it.
The market is so chaotic, naturally because of the huge interests, so meteorites are valuable. If they were not valuable, there would not be so many people involved.
For example, an iron silicide meteorite discovered in the Tunguska region of Russia is one of the best, and its price tag has reached as high as 100,000 US dollars.
As early as 2001, China's "Investors News" released information saying that in the unit price ranking of international smuggled items, meteorites had defeated diamonds, mink fur and methamphetamine, ranking first.
The price of a small meteorite on the market is already comparable to gold, so there is also a group of people on the market. They are professional meteorite hunters, also called star hunters.
Their job is to search for meteorites in the deep mountains, old forests, and Gobi deserts, and sell them at high prices to make huge profits.
The process of treasure hunting is full of dangers, but the story of getting rich overnight continues to exert temptation.
In 2013, a meteorite fell in downtown Russia, which attracted a lot of attention.
The reason why these "extraterrestrial stones" are so precious is that scientists all believe that meteorites are closely related to the origin of life on earth, so meteorites have great scientific research significance. The other reason is that most meteorites are scattered in mountains and forests.
, deserts and other inaccessible places, very few have been discovered.
As the saying goes, "Things that are scarce are more valuable." This has caused the price of meteorites to rise day by day.
Liu Xu looked at Han Peacock, who was a little proud, and said: "Seeing that you are so proud, is there anything else you can say about this meteorite?"
"What should I say? Even if this is a Martian meteorite, the price is only several times higher. Is this still worth being proud of?" Zhou Meiren said.
Qin Mingyue also said: "Using your own network resources and reputation to sell for five or six times the price, there is nothing to be proud of, right?"
Han Peacock said with a smile: "You are looking down on me. I am not proud because of this, but because this is a lunar meteorite. The price of lunar meteorites is not comparable to that of Martian meteorites."
"Is this a lunar meteorite? I heard that lunar meteorites are very rare." Liu Xu said.
Han Kongque said proudly: "Now, among the many meteorites that have been discovered, the highest value in terms of value is the lunar meteorite, followed by the Martian meteorite, and then the other meteorites.
The reason why lunar meteorites are so precious is mainly because they are extremely rare. So far, only about forty lunar meteorites have been discovered in the world. As for the number of Martian meteorites, there are almost more than a hundred.
Compared with other meteorites, which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per gram, the price of lunar meteorites is hard to say. It is most appropriate to describe it as "priceless".
Since it was first discovered in Antarctica in 1979 and confirmed to be a lunar meteorite in 1981, the price of this extremely rare meteorite has skyrocketed, and once it appears at auction, every time it appears, it will set an astonishing transaction amount.
For example, at an auction held by Sotheby's in 1993, three lunar meteorites the size of seeds and with a total weight of only 0.33 grams were brought back from the moon by the former Soviet Union's spacecraft in 1970 and sold for 442,500.
Price in US dollars.
And this lunar meteorite weighs more than 500 grams. Such a large lunar meteorite is much more expensive than gold or some rare gems."
"Almost over one million US dollars per gram? Is it fake?" Zhou Meiren said in surprise.
Han Peacock nodded and said: "It's a bit artificially high. The real transaction price is definitely not that high. This price is entirely due to the difference in meteorites. But no matter what, if you convert it into carats and compare it with gems, or even diamonds,
The price is also much higher.”
Carat is the unit of weight for gemstones. One carat is equal to 0.2 grams. Therefore, when carat is converted into grams, the price will increase five times. But even so, the price of gemstones is not as high as the price of lunar meteorites.
The current price of pure gold is about RMB 260 per gram, so one carat of gold is about RMB 46, and a one-carat diamond or loose diamond is about RMB 20,000.
How big is a one-carat diamond? It is about 6.5 mm in diameter and 3.9 mm in height.
The total weight of the three lunar meteorites brought back from the moon that were auctioned in 1991 was almost 1.5 carats, but they fetched a full price of $442,500!
It can be seen from this that the value of lunar meteorites is so high. Compared with it, gold and diamonds of the same volume are nothing at all!
The meteorite that Han Peacock is holding now weighs almost half a kilogram. It looks like a moon meteorite, and it is also a weathered glass meteorite!
Because from the color point of view, the meteorite in Han Kongque's hand is light yellow, and the lunar meteorites that have been discovered have a light yellow color, but the light yellow color is rare in other meteorites.
So after confirming that this stone was a meteorite, Han Kongque had an idea in his mind.
The molten shell on the surface of this stony meteorite is transparent, not the black molten shell of ordinary stony meteorites. This transparent molten shell is one of the unique signs of lunar meteorites.
Based on this characteristic, Han Kongque was half sure that it was a lunar meteorite.
After carefully observing this meteorite, we discovered that it has the characteristics of brecciated anorthosite, and this characteristic is one of the important evidences for identifying lunar meteorites!
Lunar meteorites are lunar rock fragments caused by meteoroids impacting the moon, rocks ejected from the moon, captured by the earth's gravitational field, and falling to the earth.
When the moon is hit by a huge impact and forms a crater with a diameter of several kilometers, these fragments will leave the lunar surface, and some fragments will be captured by the moon's gravity again, and then return to the embrace of the moon again.
Other fragments will be captured by the Earth's gravity due to the large acceleration gained during the impact, and then these fragments will often move in a circle around the Earth. This process basically takes hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and eventually
Under the strong attraction of Mother Earth, we fell into the embrace of Mother Earth.
However, not many of these fragments eventually land on the Earth's surface; most of them are burned up as they pass through the atmosphere.
Many more have fallen into the ocean, but in any case, as long as the lunar meteorites have fallen on the earth's surface and been discovered, apart from those iron meteorites, as long as they are stony meteorites, they almost have some of the lunar rock layer.
Characteristics, and the most important ones are the characteristics of breccia anorthosite!
It is for this reason that Han Peacock intuitively felt that this meteorite was a moonstone meteorite!
Of course, if you want to confirm that this is a lunar meteorite, further identification is needed, but with so many characteristics, Han Kongque is already very confident that this is a lunar meteorite.
If this meteorite is really a lunar meteorite, then once such a large piece of lunar meteorite appears at auction, the price will be an incredible sky-high price!
Such a large lunar meteorite is not the largest among the lunar meteorites that have been discovered. You must know that when humans first discovered lunar meteorites in Antarctica in 1979, a total of more than 20 lunar meteorites were found, with a total weight of 8
Kilogram, and the largest lunar meteorite discovered so far in the world only weighs 1814 grams.
But even if this lunar meteorite, which weighs about half a kilogram, is put up for auction at this time, especially if it is put up for auction in China, the conservative starting price is estimated to be more than 8 million yuan. As for the final transaction price,
That can definitely reach eight figures!
In other words, Han Peacock missed more than 10 million yuan worth of stones this time! (To be continued...)