There were rare as well as expensive Mars meteorite fragments felling from the sky over Morocco in July. This was confirmed by an international scientists team.

The fireball coming in sky was seen in a distant area at the southern part of Morocco by the nomads. They tracked down the fragments of seven kilogram meteorite.

This indicates to just the fifth occasion during history when a rock from Mars was seen falling towards Earth.

There were eight experts in the team of Meteoritical Society who analyzed these pieces. They determined these are genuine chunks coming from red planet.

Carl Agee, member of this team and the curator at University of New Mexico, remarked, “This discovery is tremendously important because of the quality of the sample.”

He added, “The Moroccans who found the fragments quickly sold them to dealers, and museums scrambled to purchase them at a range of $500 to $1,000 dollars per gram.”

The price of meteorites varies from 10 times to 20 times the cost of gold.

Agree also said, “Some of these meteorites have atmospheric gas trapped inside glassy material. When they are heated and released in the laboratory and measured it’s identical to the Mars atmosphere that all the Mars probes have measured.”

This meteorite was given the name Tissint. Its discovery got documented in a latest bulletin of Meteoritical Society issued on January 17.