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Meteorite Buying Guides, Advice, and Auctions

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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. That's right; 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.


Photo (c) 2004 Doug Bowman

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.

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.
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.
Collectors Guide to Meteorites
Buying Meteorites is like buying a diamond. You either buy it because its beautiful or its really interesting to you, you need it for your collection, or you believe it will make "the" gift for that special friend.
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 used for the header of this page was taken by them.

Meteorites and Tektites for Sale

A fine collection for your collection

There is a wide selection of meteorites for sale on eBay with prices anywhere from a few dollars to over a million! Listed below are current auctions for your meteorite buying and collecting pleasure. Place a bid today and expand your collection of these rare space visitors. Hey, not many of us can claim to own a piece of the moon!
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Meteorites in the News

If there is a big siting it will most likely show up here

Canada's cutting-edge meteorite research a victim of budget cuts
Rocks do fall from the sky, and Canada's meteorite experts have built themselves into a world power in the specialized field of studying them. Samson is one of these people, a professor of earth sciences at Carleton University.
NEW Finding meteorites topic of library program
Scientists believe there is, on average, at least one meteorite on every square half-mile in Oregon. MILTON-FREEWATER - A free program about meteorites and what to look for when trying to find them will be presented 7 pm Thursday at the ...
Mars Methane Linked To Meteorite, Revealing Clues In Search For Life On Red Planet
A meteorite that fell to Earth more than 40 years ago is helping scientists unlock clues regarding the makeup of Mars' atmosphere and its potential implications to help shape future missions to search for evidence of life on the Red Planet, ...
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Meteorite Pictures on Flickr

Hoba meteorite, Grootfontein by coda
Esquel by Bistrosavage
meteorite by kevinzim
The Dungeness Meteorite by Elsie esq.
Williamette Meteorite by ifindkarma
curated content from Flickr

Ebay RSS Feed on Current Meteorite Auctions

These current meteorite auctions are ranked from highest priced to lowest to show the investing potential in collecting meteorites. These will be the rarest most collectible meteorites and some of the most exciting specimens found world wide.
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Meteorites as an Investment

As the availability of meteorites declines the price will climb

Since the eBay RSS feed on this lens comes and goes (if you see it above consider it a rare meteorite siting) here is a link to an eBay search for current meteorite auctions sorted from highest list price to lowest to show the investing potential in buying meteorites.

eBay Meteorite Gallery

Purchase Meteorite Guides

For those curious to learn more

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Meteroite Rolex for Sale

A perfect place to store your precious meteorite!

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!
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  • miaponzo Dec 14, 2011 @ 2:54 am | delete
    I adore fossils.. but I had never thought of the option of buying meteorites before! Blessed!
  • salahdin mahawiye haji Jul 10, 2011 @ 7:55 am | delete
    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
  • Heather426 Jun 12, 2011 @ 10:49 am | delete
    wow, I have tons of meteorites. Have always collected them. Had no idea they were worth money. Thanks!
  • Rusty-Quill Jun 13, 2011 @ 8:47 pm | delete
    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.
  • chefkeem Oct 23, 2008 @ 10:54 am | delete
    A hearty SquidAngel Blessing for you, Rusty. This is so interesting! 5*s
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An avid collector and "golf ball hunter" since he could walk, Rusty Quill has been fascinated with the meteorite buying trend since listening to an NP... more »

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