The bolide fell in Qinghai and many people wanted to take the risk to pick it up. How valuable is a meteorite?

There is a tradition of collecting stones all over the world. Collectors don’t ask what value it is. As long as your stone is strange enough, someone must buy it at a high price and sell it at a higher price. Some farmers in Xishuangbanna made a lot of money selling meteorites. A farmer in Indonesia made 12.16 million (£1.4 million) when a 2.1 kg meteorite hit his house, so the meteorite still looks very valuable.

Although we already know that there is no large amount of gold in meteorites, and there is no chance to find diamonds, all research on meteorites is of great significance to mankind, and this is the true value of meteorites.

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No one doesn't like money. If you find a meteorite somewhere, congratulations, you may make a fortune. But this stone will most likely be locked in a collector’s cabinet and reduced to a tool for making money. It is difficult for scientists to have the opportunity and sufficient funds to obtain it. Therefore, speculating on meteorites is actually an obstacle to scientific research.