meteor for sale on ebay, make of it what you will, caviat emptor and stuff, page 1
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Topic started on 3-5-2005 @ 12:25 AM by Spiderj
Meteor on ebay:

cgi.ebay.com...

This is from the sellers blurb and I'm not sure if this was supposed to make me laugh:



On July 6, 1924 funeral goers, baseball fans and farmers witnessed this amazing sight as balls of fire and trailing tails of gray smoke fell from the northern sky.


But it did. Not sure why.

And it's only a million bucks, you'd think the thing was made out of solid gold or gave you super space like alien powers or something, dispense soda maybe, but as far as I can tell it just lays there.

Very interested in the usual feedback and rigormoral.

SPiderj


reply posted on 3-5-2005 @ 01:00 AM by DragonsDemesne
Typed in 'meteors sale' into google, and one of the hits was www.geocities.com... which has a rough price guide for meteorites. Apparently some of the rarer sorts can sell up to $1650/GRAM, so maybe that really is the going rate for such a meteorite. The only thing is the ebay ad says nothing about what kind of meteorite it is, which makes me suspect this is either a joke or a fraud. The shape also looks funny to me, but that could be normal; I haven't seen very many meteorites. I think it would be incredibly cool to own a meteorite, but for a million bucks?


reply posted on 3-5-2005 @ 06:19 AM by Quake
Originally posted by CyberKat

(No one owns the moon, any more than anyone owns that so called meteor - people can't just go around selling what they don't own, but some are dumb enough to think they can, and some are even dumber, and think they can buy it, therefore own it!!!)

I bet some of you have gotten similar emails, or run into those people during searches.

[edit on 5/3/2005 by CyberKat]


Looks like there are plenty of moonies willing to buy the moon plots.
Check out this link
archives.cnn.com...
Real or not, customers don't seem to mind. More than 300,000 people have purchased properties from Lunar Embassy.

In addition to their lunar plot, buyers receive a deed, a site map, a copy of the lunar constitution bill of rights and a copy of Hope's declaration of ownership filed with the U.S. government. There's also a 30-day money back guarantee.


So, in case you land on the moon, and decide your plot does not offer the view, you can return the plot within 30 days

[edit on 3-5-2005 by Quake]


reply posted on 5-11-2009 @ 04:33 AM by ANNED
They pulled the sale from ebay so it must have been a meteorwrong.

Of the rocks i have seen labled as meteorites about half have been meteorwrongs
meteorites.wustl.edu...
www.meteorite.com...

Although i am a tektite collector and a gold nugget hunter i have found a few meteorites.
Mostly with a large industrial magnet that i hang from the back bumper of my truck when i go off road in the desert or with my metal detector when nugget hunting.
www.airportfodmagnets.com...

I pickup one up on my magnet a couple week ago that looked like a piece on heavy rusted iron.
After cleaning it with acid i found it was a Octahedrite with clear Thomson structures faces.
en.wikipedia.org...

Almost every one else would have thrown it away as rusty scrap iron.

I have also found a few stoneys just because they caused my metal detector to sound off when i was in a area that the rocks don't make a detector sound off.
Many stoney meteorites have a small amount of nickel iron in them and are easy to find with a detector. these i take to the rockhound hut and cut to look for Fe-Ni metal particles in them.

I have pick up a few of these when metal detecting with other people and there detector would sound off and they would cuss the hot rocks.
it was always fun to later show them what there hot rocks really were.

[edit on 5-11-2009 by ANNED]

[edit on 5-11-2009 by ANNED]
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