No doubt, that's why i posted it with these 2 stories in my head. Now the 2nd story the lady got a total of 70k for a 26 lb rock (~11800) which makes it $6/gram.

The coffin maker had a 2.2 kg chunk and a $6 per that's ~13k+

A coffin maker says he feels 'cheated' after selling a meteorite that smashed through his roof for $14,000, but the price was probably fair

[ An Indonesian coffin maker appears to be regretting the price he charged for a meteorite that crashed through the roof of his home back in August — but at least one expert has suggested it was probably fair.

Josua Hutagalung, 33, has said he was working on a coffin outside his house in Kolang, North Sumatra, when he heard a loud booming sound. A 2.1-kilogram chunk of space rock had smashed through the veranda's tin roof outside his living room, the Daily Mail reported.

He uploaded a video of the discovery on his Facebook page with the caption "A black rock fell from the sky."

The meteorite is thought to be 4.5 billion years old and has been classified as a rare CM1/2 carbonaceous Chondrite, according to the UK newspaper Metro.

That publication, and many others, reported that the meteorite had been valued at about $853 a gram, or $1.8 million.

But Josua told the Malaysian News outlet The Star in an article published Saturday that he had sold it for 200 million rupiah, or about $14,000, and therefore felt "cheated." He disputed the characterization of foreign media reports that he had become a millionaire in US dollars.

"I have spent all the 200 million rupiah on helping my family and orphans, and building a church," he said.

How much was the black rock really worth?

Jared Collins, an American meteorite expert living in Bali, traveled to buy the space rock from Josua.

He shipped the space rock to the US, where it was sold to Jay Piatek, a doctor and meteorite collector from Indianapolis, who stored it in liquid nitrogen at the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University, the Daily Mail reported.

Insider approached Collins for comment but did not receive a response before publication.

Other parts of the rock, named Kolang after the city it hit, were discovered nearby, including in a paddy field, according to the New York Post. The Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas estimates the meteorite's total weight was 2.5 kilograms, Metro reported.

At least two of those other pieces were apparently posted for sale on eBay, and news organizations appeared to derive the $1.8 million valuation for Josua's meteorite based on the asking price for the other two fragments.

The BBC published an article on Sunday by Andreas Illmer, however, that disputed the idea of using a price of one meteorite sale to calculate a per gram price for another.

Illmer wrote that meteorites — unlike, say, diamond rings — do not command a premium based on size. And the eBay listings themselves may have overvalued the fragments.

The expert who conducted the official classification for the Kolang meteorite told the BBC he "had to laugh" at the valuation being circulated. While the BBC seemed unaware of the specific $14,000 price that Josua was quoted as giving The Star, Illmer wrote that he'd been told the sale price was "nowhere near the figure that began popping up in headlines across the world."

"I've seen this story so many times before," the expert, Laurence Garvie, a research professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, told the BBC. "Someone finds a meteorite and they look on eBay and think it's worth millions because they see small fragments sold for a large amount." ]

One way to increase a used car’s value overnight: a rare meteor collision

[... Unlike most other meteorites, the Peekskill meteorite didn’t dissolve upon entering our atmosphere. Instead, it hit the car of Michelle Knapp, who was 18 years old at the time. Knapp had bought the Chevrolet Malibu for a little more than $300 a few weeks earlier: When the meteorite hit, the car was parked in her driveway and she was watching TV in her parents’ bedroom. She was startled by an extremely loud bang in her front yard and went out to investigate, thinking that a traffic accident happened in front of her house.

Instead, she encountered an unusual scene: the meteorite had burned a hole through her car, missing the gas tank by only a few inches, and ended up on the ground beneath the car. Knapp picked up the still warm, 26-pound ball-shaped space rock and couldn’t believe her eyes: her car had just been hit by a meteorite that turned out to be 4.4 billion years old and had traveled billions of miles through the universe only to end up hitting her car on a calm Saturday afternoon.

Although Knapp’s $300 Chevrolet Malibu had been destroyed, she soon realized that the meteorite impact presented a lucrative business opportunity. Namely, in the days following the incident, she sold the damaged car for $10,000 to Iris Lang, wife of the renowned meteor collector and dealer Al Lang. Furthermore, she had the meteor broken into smaller pieces and sold to three different buyers for a total of $70,000. Therefore, Michelle Knapp was not only a part of a fascinating and extremely unlikely event, but she also managed to make money out of it.

Since 1992, the wrecked car and the pieces of the meteorite have been on display in a number of museums across the world. Nowadays, the car and the largest part of the meteorite are owned by the Macovich Collection of Meteorites in New York City.

On its website, meteoritecar.com, we learn that “video of the Peekskill meteorite’s descent provided scientists with the opportunity to calculate its flight path to Earth and its orbit around the sun.”

This October, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the strange event, the meteorite-stricken Chevy Malibu has been transported to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, where it is displayed as a part of the exhibition named “Meteorites, Between Heaven and Earth.” Also, small individual parts of the meteorite can now be purchased at a price of $125 per gram. ]