From the Island Owner to the King

The fireball dragged its long pyrotechnic tail across the sky from south to north.

A huge flame rose on the horizon, the earth began to tremble, and the virgin forest of more than ten square kilometers was knocked down by the shock wave.

The sky after the explosion was shrouded in a gloomy orange.

A funnel-shaped crater was left where the fireball struck.

Potholes accumulate water to form a lake.

This lake is the very regular circular lake that Chen Rui looked down on from the top of the mountain yesterday.

And the fireballs drawn from the sky in the rock paintings of the ancestors of the indigenous people are meteorites.

Fireballs and fireballs drag long pyrotechnic tails because meteorites enter the earth's atmosphere and burn with the air in the atmosphere under the action of high-speed and violent friction, forming a fireball and long pyrotechnic tails dragged by the fireball.

Most of these meteorites come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and a small number from the moon and Mars.

Most meteorites burn up and disintegrate as they enter the atmosphere, but about 500 meteorites as small as marbles and basketballs still fall to the ground each year.

A very small number of meteorites are big enough to fall on the ground, because the strong kinetic energy produced by the impact is equivalent to ten times the speed of the bullet and the mass output of ten kilograms or even tons, and knocked out a huge impact crater. Because some meteorites are not big enough, they have reached the terminal speed when they fall to the ground, and can only create a small pit at most.

And the meteorites hit the ground long ago, recorded in the petroglyphs of the ancestors of the indigenous people.

It caused a huge flame to rise on the horizon, the earth trembled, the virgin forest of more than ten square kilometers near the impact center was knocked down by the shock wave, and a crater with a diameter of 2,300 meters was left after the impact.

It can be said that the size of this meteorite is very huge.

Because it is located in the deep Amazon rainforest and inaccessible to people, the local indigenous people do not know the value of meteorites. They may think it is just an ordinary stone, or they may subconsciously fear the lake generated by the 'God's wrath' and dare not approach it. Lakes or salvage meteorites from lakes.

Therefore, Chen Rui deduced that the meteorite is likely to remain at the bottom of the lake.

Chen Rui decided to dive into the lake to salvage this very valuable meteorite.

The value of meteorites is that they are 'cheap and high-quality' scientific samples.

Just imagine, to retrieve samples from other planets, you need to use a spacecraft, the cost is huge, amazing!

The Apollo spacecraft landed on the moon and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to collect more than 300 kilograms of samples of the lunar surface from the front of the moon. It is still impossible to obtain samples from the far side of the moon that cannot be seen from the surface of the earth, but if it can be collected from the surface of the earth. The cost of meteorites to the moon or other planets is obviously much less.

Facts show that the Antarctic continent, because it is uncultivated virgin land, has the best preservation of meteorites. For example, among the meteorites found in the Antarctic continent, there are 9 meteorite samples from the moon, and more preciously, 8 of them are from the moon. Meteorites come from the far side of the moon.

And collecting samples on Mars is more difficult and expensive than collecting on the moon.

These meteorites carry the original information of celestial bodies and are of great significance to human research in high-energy physics, celestial body evolution, geochemistry, and the origin of life.

For example, humans have found a large amount of organic compounds such as ammonia, nucleic acids, fatty acids, pigments and 11 amino acids in meteorites with high carbon content.

Therefore, people speculate that the origin of life on earth has a considerable relationship with meteorites, and the life on earth was spread by meteorites to the earth.

The discovery that about 25 percent of the magnetite crystal structure in the Martian meteorite 'Allen-Hills 84001' was formed by bacteria provides the strongest evidence yet for life on Mars.

Meteorites not only have very important scientific research value, but also have very high collection value.

The scarcity of meteorites and the hype in the market have prompted the price of its collection to soar, from a few dollars per pound to now a huge number comparable to diamonds.

At present, the most expensive meteorites in the world are those of the moon and Mars, which cost about US$1,000 or 6,200+ RMB per gram. Next, the market price of stony-iron meteorites ranges from tens to two or three hundred dollars per gram. Even the cheapest desert meteorite has a high degree of weathering, and it costs 1 RMB per gram. If there are many witnesses when it falls, the value will increase dozens of times, reaching 40 to 50 yuan per gram.

The high price of meteorites has also spawned a meteorite collection boom.

Meteorite searchers have also grown rapidly in recent years, and many will spend between $1 and $2,000 for weeks-long searches in one location. Some people will spend tens of thousands of dollars searching for a place where there may be a lot of meteorites, hoping to make a major discovery and make a lot of money.

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Chen Rui stayed with the indigenous tribe for a week.

During this week, Chen Rui taught the indigenous tribes many relatively advanced production techniques.

For example, the indigenous tribes were taught to burn pottery with the common soil on the mountain, to make salt from mineral salt, to process and tan the fur of animals, to use simple tools to build strong and durable houses that can shelter from wind and rain, how to make tools and use them, and many more.

In the end, Chen Rui kept a little of the various medicines stored in the space for himself, and gave the rest to the indigenous people, and told how the indigenous people used these medicines.

Compared with Chen Rui, the indigenous people living in the rain forest with harsh environment and high disease infection rate need these medicines more. Perhaps a bottle of common cold medicine and penicillin can save a person's life.

Chen Rui left the aboriginal tribe and followed Black Spot by his side.

to the lake.

Chen Rui left the black spot on the shore of the lake and let it find food on its own.

Chen Rui jumped into the lake, performed the water splitting technique, and dived to the bottom of the lake.

The bottom of the lake is 3 to 40 meters deep, and only a little light can be seen.

Without much effort, Chen Rui found the meteorite buried in the mud in the middle of the lake bottom.

Put the meteorite into the space, then go back to the shore and enter the space, so that you have time to check the meteorite.

The meteorite is very large, round, without edges and corners, and the surface is covered with pits of different sizes and depths, and it makes a clanging sound when knocked.

According to Chen Rui's analysis of the meteorite's fracture surface, specific gravity, and magnetic strength, this meteorite is a stony meteorite, and its main component is silicate.

Chen Rui took another tape measure from the space and measured the size of the meteorite.

The meteorite is 3.11 meters long, 2.21 meters wide, 1.57 meters high, and can weigh 40+ tons. This is a big man, and its size may rank among the top three of all the meteorites currently found in the world.

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