00:00This is an amazing Martian meteorite that broke off of the Martian surface.
00:14There was some sort of massive asteroid strike.
00:17And we know there have only been 19 asteroid strikes big enough to eject a piece like this off of the surface of the planet.
00:26It comes hurtling through space, you know, 140 million miles through space, makes it through Earth's atmosphere.
00:33And something to note, you know, most things burn up when they're coming through the Earth's atmosphere.
00:39You know, the spacecrafts, the Apollo astronauts had to have a massive heat shield on the bottom of those spacecrafts.
00:44So it's incredible that it made it through and then that it crashed in the middle of the desert instead of the middle of the ocean in a place where we could find it.
00:53And that somebody who could recognize what it was found it.
00:57So there's a whole kind of process or a layer of things that have to happen in order for this to become reality and be here in front of us.
01:08Right now we're going to be here today.
01:20So, let's go.
01:50They didn't know it was Martian, they knew it was just a meteorite at first, and this
02:10is what they do.
02:11They go out of the desert and they look for meteorites, they try to find things like this.
02:16So they actually called our consignor who has a relationship with that person and has
02:24told them, you know, if you find anything amazing, give me a call.
02:26So their first call was to our consignor who got on an airplane and flew straight out and
02:32was out in the desert in tents, you know, working on getting this out of the country it was
02:40found in.
02:41And it caused quite a stir.
02:44You know, you do have to be careful because often things like this are found in countries
02:50where people do not have a lot of means.
02:53So you don't, you know, you find a giant bag of gold, you're not going to go walk down the
02:57street in New York, you go have a bag of gold, right?
02:59So you have to be kind of quiet about it.
03:02But you know, some buzz did get out and people started getting nervous about it.
03:07So the people there knew already that it was something special just by the fact that it
03:14was a meteorite and that it was big.
03:17It wasn't until it got to the lab and pieces were tested that we realized, oh my gosh, it's
03:23Martian.
03:24And then when those results came back and we compared and saw, okay, it's not just Martian.
03:29It is the biggest piece of Mars on the planet.
03:33So luckily those details were figured out when they were no longer in the middle of the desert.
03:40The estimate is two to four million dollars and luckily with meteorites, unlike a lot
03:45of the other items I sell, we do have a lot of price indications and looking at all the
03:52different meteorites that have sold, they generally have a price per gram.
03:57So the estimate of two to four million is actually quite conservative for the price per gram for
04:03a Martian meteorite of this type.
04:33155.
04:34So in part two million is just as well.
04:35Didn't everybody know that I'm doing.
04:37We have a some huge upgrade.
04:38We have a total of two years later and we're still going to work on it.
04:39So we've got a formula here.
04:41We've got a formula, we've got a formula, we're just going to work on it.
04:42It's full of 15,000-plus.
04:43We've got a formula here.
04:44We have a weed, it's full of 26,000, we've got a lot of $5,000 from the
04:46system that we have.
04:48So we've got a people that are still going to work on it.
04:49So we can go to the other side, can check it out.
04:51Here we have a good meal, we can go.
04:53So on, we can go to the store for our next purchase, they can go.
