Meteorites are rare. How can ordinary people get a meteorite for collection?

Meteorites have been endowed with sacred significance since ancient times and are called "sky stones" and "god stones" by the people because they fell from the sky. However, the collection craze in recent years has also made collecting meteorites a hot spot. Some meteorites with exquisite appearance and excellent color are worth as much as gold. Even ordinary meteorites are highly sought after by meteorite collectors.

After all, there are only tens of thousands of meteorite collectors in the world. This aspect started very late in China, and there are only a hundred or ten collectors. Also scattered across the country. They have their own little circle. It is completely inaccessible to outsiders. They mainly obtain meteorites by going to the wild by themselves, trading among collectors, and purchasing from domestic and foreign mineral exhibitions. Meteorite collection requires profound professional knowledge.

Where meteorites come from is very important. Meteorites from unknown planets will have higher value. For example, because we humans have plans to immigrate to Mars, and there has been a debate about whether there are living things on Mars, so from Martian meteorites are of great interest. Meteorites falling at different times can not only infer where the meteorite came from, but also determine other information on the stars if the time is long enough. Therefore, the longer the meteorite is, the more valuable it is for research.

Robert Haig is 45 years old this year. He has a dual identity. On the one hand, he is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and on the other hand, he is the most authoritative meteorite collector in the world. Haig has been collecting meteorites since he was 23 years old. At that time, no one realized that they were good things that could be sold for money. To date, Haig's collection of meteorites has become the largest private collection of meteorites in the world. Although other people have entered the industry since 1990, no one can compare with Haig in terms of strength and collection size.