Due to the large number of meteorites, the local people were the first to know the news, so the meteorite fall incident once again became a national hot spot the next day. First, local villagers began to go out looking for meteorites. The villagers successively picked up dozens of meteorite fragments of different sizes in the farmland in the falling area, the largest of which weighed 1280 g.
Later, treasure hunters from all over the country also came to Menghai County, but most of the meteorites were picked up by local villagers. Scientific research institutions and meteorite collectors also came to Menghai County to buy meteorites in the hands of villagers. Due to the large number of people who come to buy it and fierce market competition, the price of meteorites has been constantly rising, reaching a maximum of 6,543,800 yuan.
Later, some experts said that the greatest value of meteorites is scientific research. Generally, the price of one gram of meteorites will not exceed 100 yuan. However, this does not affect the acquisition of meteorites at a high price. The meteorites in the hands of villagers were bought by collectors all over the country at high prices, and the villagers who found the meteorites made unexpected wealth, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan.
So what are so many meteorites that fell in Yunnan this time? After the incident, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Land and Resources sent an expert group to conduct on-the-spot investigation on the meteorite falling site, and sent the collected meteorite samples to the Kunming Mineral Resources Supervision and Testing Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources for physical and chemical testing and identification.
After preliminary detection, the meteorite is wrapped in leather shell, black, about 0.5 mm thick, rough in appearance, with "air marks" of melting erosion, turtle-shell cracks and white cracks in some parts; The fresh part of the meteorite is brown and grayish white, and black veinlets can be seen to fill the cracks. The specific gravity of meteorites is 3.4. The main mineral components of meteorites are olivine and enstatite, followed by plagioclase, and a small amount of pyrrhotite, iron, iron nickel and meteorite sulfur iron. The crust is composed of reticulated pyrite, olivine and pyroxene, and the black veins running through the meteorite are composed of tiny spherical and spongy pyrite, olivine and pyroxene. Meteorites have cataclastic structure, microsphere structure and reticular structure. This meteorite should be named "Stubborn Rugby Meteorite"
This kind of meteorite is just a very common meteorite, which has certain scientific research value, but it is not a precious and rare meteorite, and its value is naturally not as high as people think. So collectors who buy these meteorites at high prices don't know whether to pay or earn.
We all know that meteorites are rocks from space. Essentially no different from that on earth. They are precious because they come from space. Taking the meteorite collection as an investment is actually very risky.
With the continuous progress of human space science and technology, it will no longer be a dream for human beings to travel in space in the future. At that time, it was not difficult for us to land on the planets in the solar system, nor was it difficult to pick up some rock samples from other planets. At that time, people will be indifferent to meteorites, and its value will naturally be small, just like the stones on the earth.
When human space technology can freely carry out alien planets, will the meteorites collected now still be valuable? It is estimated that it will be worthless then, because there are too many such stones in space, and a trip to the moon can bring back a lot. Things are rare, and if they are not rare, their value will be gone.