If You Find One

However, small meteorites cease to be hot when they reach the ground. Donald Yeomans, NASA’s Near Earth Object program manager stated, “Small rocky meteorites found immediately after landing will not be hot to the touch.”   

Warm And Strange

But same can’t be said about the larger pieces. “If we got hit by something large enough to leave a crater, the fragments might be very hot indeed,” said Bill Cooke, Marshall Space Flight Center. The same case occurred with Edmore doorstop. The farmer had watched the object shooting down in the night and discovered it the very next morning that still happened to be warm.   

Valuable

No matter they stay warm or cold after reaching the surface of the earth, they all are highly valuable as they are rare. For example, Christie’s auction house in London put around 83 meteorites of different kinds on auction in April 2016. And they all were carrying a heavy price.  

Valera Meteorites

There were some of the well-famed meteorites that fell to the ground. Out of all the meteorites, Valera happens to be the only rock that hit an animal resulting in creature’s death. The auction was expecting at least $9,000 out of it.     

Brenham Meteorite Main Mass

However, the value of this unique rock dims down among the other valuable rocks. The haul included the Brenham Meteorite Main Mass that weighed 1,433 pounds. Along with that, the rock possessed a different shape, thanks to the way it made through the atmosphere. Interestingly, instead of spinning while racing down, it remained in a static position. It was because of that it got its unique U-shape.          

Sparkle

The unique characteristics of the rock do not end here. The Brenham meteorite was sparkling due to olivine minerals staying on its outer body. No need to say, this amazing rock too came with a hefty price. According to the Christie estimation, the cost of the rock can be anything between $750,000 to $1.2 million.