The gram meteorite Urals sold for 30 euros

The curious can buy in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk meteorite fragments that fell last week in the $ 40 (about 30 euros) per gram, butrun the risk of being scammed , as reported by the authorities. "He was on the road I saw a flash bright . then spent the meteorite, which broke off a piece that fell in a field. I went and saw a piece of stone on the snow, "said Sergei, a resident of Chelyabinsk, the online newspaper Gazeta.ru . Sergey, who refuses to identify the place where he found the piece of meteorite course, sold on the website Avitus 14 fragments of up to 6 inches in diameter and weighing 60 grams ."I caught my first buyers. We agreed to meet tomorrow," he said. Meanwhile, Anton sold on the same page fragment 8 kilograms amorphous mass and up to 13 centimeters per 100,000 rubles (about 2,400 euros). "It looks unusual.'m Sure it's a piece of meteorite. I grew a third leg or tail has left me, so all is well," said, in response to whether he is not afraid of the possible radioactivity of the rock. According to the official news agency RIA-Novosti, in other web parts are available for 500,000 rubles (about 13,500 euros). Once obtained a certificate of authenticity , these rocks can reach a starting price of up to several tens of thousands of dollars in international auctions if they come from other planets, like Mars. regard, Chelyabinsk police reported that is trying to identify More than thirty people who have posted on internet ads to sell astral body fragments which fell on Friday on the region. Policeyesterday seized a person a stone of about 60 grams trying to sell for 500,000 rubles as if it were a meteor rock. According to experts interviewed by Gazeta.ru, if the piece of meteorite includes platinum, bronze or palladium then its sale is prohibited by the criminal code because it is precious. According to the American Space Agency (NASA), the meteorite that left more than 1,500 injured in the region, 319 of them children, had a mass of 10,000 tonnes at the time of exploding in the atmosphere, the more that has fallen on the Earth since 1908.