The price of various meteorite ornaments on the Internet ranges from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan. A jewelry store called the meteorite pendant a gift to relieve fatigue. Some merchants advertised "energy stone", "absorbing radiation" and "enhancing magnetic field", claiming that the meteorite sold has the function of relieving fatigue and depression.
Gao Buxi, executive vice chairman of Hubei Astronomical Society and a researcher at the Institute of Geodesy of China Academy of Sciences, said that meteorites, also known as meteorites, are actually meteors falling on the earth's surface. According to the different composition, it can be roughly divided into three categories: stone meteorite, iron meteorite and stone iron meteorite.
He said that meteorites are exposed to the cosmic environment, with weak radioactivity and rapid decay. Even if it is a meteorite that has just landed, there are few cosmic rays left, so it is difficult to affect the human body. Therefore, most of the health care functions boasted on the Internet are out of thin air.
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Zhu Jin, director of the Beijing Planetarium, believes that the most important thing about meteorites is their scientific research value. On the premise of ensuring scientific research, people can collect it, but there is limited room for appreciation as a collection.
Zhu Jin said that meteorite identification is very professional and it is difficult to define it through text description. There are few meteorites. If you have never seen a real meteorite, you will mistake ordinary stones such as iron ore for meteorites, so it is very likely that you will encounter fakes in the transaction.
For human health, meteorites have no health care function. He suggested cooling down the "meteorite collection fever" and returning to rationality.
He Xun. Com- online shop sells meteorites that claim to have special health care effects. Experts accused them of making things out of nothing.
China's economic net-"Meteorite Collection fever" started in China.