Whether you want to buy one meteorite as a gift, get the latest asteroid definition, acquire a specific research specimen, or expand your meteorite collection, I will strive to help you every step of the way. The meteorite listings below are from our Find Meteorites For Sale page. Aerolite provides authenticated meteorites to a discerning clientele, from individual collectors to leading educational. Our Meteorites For Sale page features meteorites, tektites, and other space related items for sale from meteorite dealers around the world. Outside of sales, we also provide meteorite education, donation, research, recovery. I presently serve our community as the President and founder of the Global Meteorite Association, have and continue to serve the Meteoritical Society in various roles, and established two successful Facebook meteorite related groups: Meteorite, Tektites, Impactites & Ephemera, and Meteorite or Meteowrong. is a multifaceted meteorite corporation based in Tucson, Arizona, with an additional office in the United Kingdom. I enjoy sharing my love and knowledge of meteorites with my clients and the community at large. You can read about my personal meteorite journey in this history and interview. 2015, I decided to work for myself and became a full-time dealer. I quickly realized my space rock obsession needed to be self-funded and began selling meteorites in Nov. Soon after, I bought my first two meteorites and became hooked. 2011, I was instantly intrigued when I learned anyone could trade, sell and buy meteorites. So, after watching my first episode of “Meteorite Men” in Oct. Starting or Expanding Your Meteorite Collection (3).Solar System & Parent Body Formation (2).Preparation, Preservation & Curation (1).Meteorite Preservation, Protection & Curation Supplies."The point is I wanted to create a sale that had something for everyone," Pitt said. But there are two main markets: one of aesthetic iron meteorites and the other is of samples whose value is predicated on attributes other than aesthetics, like a piece of the planet Mars.Ībout two dozen of the meteorites in the sale have museum provenance and have no reserve. Meteorite prices today depend on many variables. It was later chained up in a church so it couldn't fly back into orbit. There are others that have lower estimates but come with interesting stories, like a small portion of a meteorite estimated at about $4,000 that fell from the sky in 1492. The Peekskill piece has a pre-sale estimate of $47,500 to $55,000. The catalog says it is "arguably the most exotically aesthetic" and was discovered by indigenous tribesmen in Namibia with a metal detector. The cover lot in the sale is of an iron meteorite with naturally formed holes that resemble a mask. "The overwhelming majority of meteorites are not aesthetic," he said. I knew that the only way I would be able to attract interest on the part of the public was to offer objects that were more visually captivating." ![]() "I was on a mission to popularize meteorites. "That has radically changed with the introduction of the first natural history auction in the mid-1990s," he said in an interview. ![]() Its principal owner is Pitt, who said that 20 years ago all meteorites were selling for the same price irrespective of their aesthetic attributes. Specimens from the collection are found at the natural history museums in London, New York and Paris and The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., among others. More than half of the meteorites in the sale come from the Macovich collection, the world's largest grouping of aesthetic iron meteorites - specimens that are considered desirable for display. It is classified a Gibeon and was discovered in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Three of the concave hallows are evocative of Munch's image of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked sky. "It is sculpted in part by atmospheric entry and most significantly by its exposure to the elements on earth over millennia." ![]() "When I first saw this meteorite, I saw the resemblance in a heartbeat," said Darryl Pitt, who has consigned the piece to the auction. A naturally sculpted Gibeon iron meteorite discovered by indigenous tribesmen in Namibia with a metal detector will be offered at the auction, and is estimated to bring $140,000 to $180,000.
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