[abner]

I read an article in the Smithsonian a while ago that had meteorite going for 400.00 a gram. I'm going to have to look up the article.

[MineralMan]

"I read an article in the Smithsonian a while ago that had meteorite going for 400.00 a gram. I'm going to have to look up the article."

Depends on the meteorite. This one looks like a typical stony meteorite. What will add value to this fall is that it happened now, and the explosion is on video. Dated falls always produce higher values for meteorites.

Judging from the largish fragment in the hand of the reporter, this was a fairly large object, so there should be a good deal of it lying around. Trouble is that unless it went through something, a particular fragment is going to be slightly difficult to identify, especially on open grown near other terrestrial rocks.

The most valuable chunks will be those that cause visible damage. Owners of property damaged, should record the damage on actual film, not digitally and keep real photo prints with the meteorite. Provenance is everything.

That said, we'll start seeing chunks of this on eBay tomorrow, I'm quite sure, many of them bogus.

BTW, if a meteorite falls on your property, it belongs to you. The government cannot force you to give it up. It is yours, and you can profit from it however you choose.