Rare Mars Meteorites Discovered

LT4Ryan writes: "An article at CNN.com has news that rock hunters have discovered 5 new meteorites from the Red Planet. Apparently these rocks are quite valuable, grabbing $3,000 US per gram in Auctions."

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Visible Mars Project

[cybrpnk]

Here's a whiff of Mars for a lot less than $3000 per gram...

One use for meteorites... fancy knives!

[morcheeba]

This guy makes some neat knives out of meteorites. The metal goes into decorative pieces, and in some of them, is the blade itself. I don't know if it's a better blade (probably not), but they look pretty and it's cool for someone who wants something... a bit different. Here's his description of his midnight knife:

The bolsters are made from Gibeon nickel-iron meteorite which is acid etched to reveal the beautiful widmanstatten pattern seen only in meteorites. Widmanstatten patterns develop during the slow cooling of the iron core of a planetoid (asteroid). The handles are diamond cut from Renfrow stony meteorite. This meteorite exhibits a black stone matrix flecked with bright nickel inclusions, reminiscent of a starry sky. The spine and thumb-bob are inlayed with Albin stony-iron meteorite. This rare and fragile meteorite forms as molten nickel-iron flows around emerald green olivine crystals.

but a picture is worth a 1000 words.

He also has a knife/meteorite link page.