[meteorite-list] "Meteorite" for $7.1 billion per gram!

From: Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 26 16:07:31 2006
Message-ID: <9c2f96d20601261307x4670ddd0t3bf0c75f0e70e4c5_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Someone check my math, but I figure that if the Stardust sample return
is priced per gram given a cost of $200,000,000 for 0.028g of material
(based upon the website, and might be rather generous), the price per
gram topped $7 billion!

$7,142,857,143/g to be exact. Think NASA accepts credit cards?

Anyone out there bored enough to calculate ebay's service charge on a
one gram sale?

Cheers,

Martin
Received on Thu 26 Jan 2006 04:07:10 PM PST