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It would be so cool to find a meteorite. Even cooler to find it was worth a fortune. Finding a meteorite is like winning the lottery.
Chairman of Astronomy Ireland David Moore said the organisation was hoping to have an even more precise location in the county as more reports are logged.
He said: "We've had hundreds of calls and we've pinpointed the location to in and around Tipperary.
"We are now looking for reports from people in Tipperary or the surrounding counties who saw a very bright fireball streak across the sky . . . The rock could be worth one million euro."
It will look very different to an ordinary rock, he added.
The search is on in Ireland. It could be in Limerick.
You will need a magnet to search for real meteorites. Images of Meteorites, know what a meteorite looks like.
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Map of Tipperary and surrounding counties in Ireland.
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Pinpoint the meteorite worth €1m euro.
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Hunt hots up to find meteorite worth €1m
Tipperary has been pinpointed as the site where a meteorite worth 20 times its weight in gold crash-landed from space.
Hundreds of callers to Astronomy Ireland have logged reports on the meteorite, which blazed across the night sky at 9.20pm on Wednesday.
Chairman of Astronomy Ireland David Moore said the organisation was hoping to have an even more precise location in the county as more reports are logged.
He said: "We've had hundreds of calls and we've pinpointed the location to in and around Tipperary.
"We are now looking for reports from people in Tipperary or the surrounding counties who saw a very bright fireball streak across the sky . . . The rock could be worth one million euro."
It will look very different to an ordinary rock, he added.
- Lynne Kelleher
Sunday Independent
How Valuable are Meteorites?
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Meteorites are typically sold by weight. The meteorite collecting community uses the metric system so weights are measured in grams and kilograms, and dimensions in centimeters and millimeters.
As is the case with most collectibles, the commercial value of a meteorite is determined by a number of factors including rarity of type, provenance, condition of preservation, and beauty or aesthetic appeal. It is important to note that new and noteworthy meteorite finds should always be made available to the scientific community for study. Once a meteorite has been analyzed and classified by academia, surplus specimens find their way onto the commercial market. The process of acceptance into the official scientific literature actually adds commercial value to a meteorite.
Meteorite prices vary from one source to another but the numbers quoted here are typical of retail values in today’s marketplace. Unclassified stone chondrites picked up by nomads wandering in the Sahara Deserts are readily available for about $0.50/gram. Attractive stones from the Gao-Guenie witnessed fall (Burkina Faso, Africa, March 5, 1960) can be purchased for about $1.50/gram and a top quality one-kilogram specimen of the Campo del Cielo iron meteorite from Chaco Province, Argentina can be yours for about $400.
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Pallasites are stony-iron meteorites packed with olivine (the gemstone peridot) and are particularly desirable when cut and polished because of the alluring color and translucency of the crystals they contain. Prepared slices of stable pallasites such as Imilac (Chile), Glorieta Mountain (New Mexico, USA) and Esquel (Argentina) are prized for their colorful gemstones and long-term stability, and will fetch between $20 and $40/gram. Meteorites are heavy, so a quality slice the size of a small dinner plate is worth thousands of dollars.

At the high end of the pricing scale are unusual types such as the diogenite Tatahouine (fell June 27, 1931, Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia). A prime specimen will easily fetch $50/gram while rare examples of lunar and Martian meteorites may sell for $1,000/gram or more — almost forty times the current price of gold!
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What are Meteors?
"I think I've found a meteor."
In order to appreciate the humor inherent in this sentence we must first understand the difference between meteors and meteorites. Meteor is the scientific name for a shooting star: the light emitted as fragments—usually rather small—of cosmic material which we sometimes see at night, burning high up in the earth's atmosphere. The bright, and typically very short-lived flame, is caused by atmospheric pressure and friction as pieces of extraterrestrial material become so hot they literally incandesce, as does the air around them. Manned spacecraft such as NASA's space shuttle and the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules experienced similar heating during re-entry into our atmosphere, which is why they employ heat shields to protect the astronauts and cargoes inside.

Meteor Showers in Ireland
There are a number of periodic meteor showers visible each year in the night sky: the Perseids in August, and the Leonids in November usually being the most interesting to observe. The annual meteor showers are the result of our planet passing through debris trails left by comets. The meteors we see during those annual displays are typically small pieces of ice which rapidly burn up in the atmosphere and never make it to the surface of our planet.

Sporadic Meteors
An sporadic is a meteor which is not associated with one of the periodic showers and the majority of those meteors also burn up entirely in the atmosphere which acts as a shield, protecting us earthbound humans from falling space debris. Any portion of a meteor which does survive its fiery flight and falls to the surface of the earth is called a meteorite. So, meteorite scientists and hunters understandably chuckle to themselves when a hopeful person claims to have discovered a meteor. The excited people who ask me to help them identify a strange rock should actually be saying: "I think I've found a meteorite."

A polite and charming lady once telephoned the Aerolite Meteorites office and asked if we had, for sale, any meteorites from the constellation of Castor and Pollux. I explained to her that most—or possibly all—meteorites found on earth originate from within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, but there is a chance that some meteorites come to us from farther afield. It has been theorized that rare carbon-bearing meteorites known as a carbonaceous chondrites—such as Murchison which fell in Victoria, Australia in 1969—may be the remnants of a comet nucleus, but that remains conjecture. The stone meteorite Zag, which was seen to fall in the Western Sahara in 1998 and later recovered by nomads, contains water and so a slightly more fanciful but intriguing theory developed which suggests that large meteorites may have carried both water and amino acids (the so-called "building blocks of life") to our planet in the distant past.

What are Meteorites?
Meteorites are rocks, usually containing a great deal of extraterrestrial iron, which were once part of planets or large asteroids. These celestial bodies broke up, or perhaps never fully formed, millions or even billions of years ago. Fragments from these long-dead alien worlds wandered in the coldness of space for great periods of time before crossing paths with our own planet. Their tremendous terminal velocity, which can result in an encounter with our atmosphere at a staggering 17,000 miles per hour, produces a short fiery life as a meteor. Most meteors burn for only a few seconds, and that brief period of heat is part of what makes meteorites so very unique and fascinating. Fierce temperatures cause surfaces to literally melt and flow, creating remarkable features which are entirely unique to meteorites, such as regmaglypts ("thumbprints"), fusion crust, orientation, contraction cracks, and rollover lips. These colorful terms will be discussed and examined in future editions of Meteorwritings.


Meteorites: Very Rare and Very Old
Meteorites are among the rarest materials found on earth and are also the oldest things any human has ever touched. Chondrules—small, colorful, grain-like spheres about the size of a pin head—are found in the most common type of stone meteorite, and give that class its name: the chondrites. Chondrules are believed to have formed in the solar nebula disk, even before the planets which now inhabit our solar system. Our own planet was probably once made up of chondritic material, but geologic processes have obliterated all traces of the ancient chondrules. The only way we can study these 4.6 billion year old mementoes from the early days of the Solar System is by looking at meteorites. And so meteorites become valuable to scientists as they are nothing less than history, chemistry, and geology lessons from space.

Gemstones from Space
Some meteorites even contain gemstones. The beautiful Brenham pallasite, found in Kiowa County, Kansas is packed with sea-green olivine crystals, which is also known as the semi-precious gemstone peridot. Both the Allende meteorite which fell in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Canyon Diablo iron which formed Arizona's immense and erroneously named Meteor Crater (craters are formed by large meteorites, not meteors) contain micro diamonds.

The rarity of meteorites, along with the fact that they are the only way in which most of us will ever have the chance to touch a piece of an alien world, make them of great interest to an ever-expanding network of private meteorite collectors. Meteorite collecting is an exciting and growing hobby and there are perhaps a thousand active enthusiasts in the world today. The international space rock market is something else we will explore in the months ahead.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?
by Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

Meteorites are worth a lot of money! They are more rare than gold and some are even more valuable than diamonds. Some meteorites are priceless scientific and cultural treasures, and though some meteorites hold this high value, the majority aren’t worth much at all. This seems counter intuitive and doesn’t make much sense does it? Read on and you’ll understand the how and why meteorites are valuable to humanity.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?

This is a question I get all the time, usually from people who have found or who have recently purchased a meteorite. People want to know what a meteorites value is, where they can get it classified, or where and if they can buy and sell meteorites.

This article is based on an industry average and information compiled from a number of online and textual resources.

I’d like to provide a quick analogy. Meteorites are like cars. Some cars are very expensive and are worth a great deal of money due to their rarity, like the Roll Royce for example. When compared to a sub compact or family sedan a Ferrari is worth much much more. Quality is the first thing you think of the governs the value, then you consider aesthetics, and finally rarity. Meteorites are valued in much the same way as any commodity really.
Odessa Meteorites Getting Thousands on Ebay

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Odessa's meteor crater draws thousands of visitors per year but now pieces of the meteor are drawing thousands of dollars on Ebay.
The meteorite strike was 50 times as powerful as one hydrogen bomb and would have easily wiped out what is now downtown Odessa. Visitors come from all over the country to see the country's second largest meteor crater. "When we saw the signs out on the interstate for Meteor Crater Museum... we couldn't resist", said visitor Thomas Atkinson of Baltimore, Maryland.
Now Ebay sellers are making money off pieces of the meteor by selling them for up to $2500 dollars. "They vary. Some people will try to sell them for $150 a pound. There have been some places that try and get more than that", said Bob Rice.
Rice is the manager of the Odessa Meteor Crater Museum. Living onsite he meets many characters who come from far and wide to visit and he says there is widespread demand for the rocks.
"Odessa meteorites are sought after by collectors all over the world".
The museum actually gets more than 200 visitors per day during peak visitation in the summer. Today there was a European crowd. "It's something exceptional, I never saw something like that", said Italian visitor Gilberto Murari.
Murari loved the crater but says he isn't looking to buy just yet.
"No...no..no..no. I must say I prefer the $2000 in my pocket".
One English visitor believes the meteor shouldn't be sold at all.
"I think the artifacts belong with the site unless they've had some sort of formal release", said Steve Hankin of Southampton.
So when you start searching for a meteorite of your own, whether you're headed to Odessa's crater or Ebay. You will need one special tool to test the authenticity of these iron and nickel rocks.
"The main thing that most meteorite hunters do if they're out looking for them is carry a magnet", said Rice.
Rice says some people love the crater but for others it doesn't have quite the same impact.
"They see these things and they have a deep interest in them and then other people... to them it's just... its just a rock".
How Much Are Meteorites Worth?
by Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

Meteorites are worth a lot of money! They are more rare than gold and some are even more valuable than diamonds. Some meteorites are priceless scientific and cultural treasures, and though some meteorites hold this high value, the majority aren’t worth much at all. This seems counter intuitive and doesn’t make much sense does it? Read on and you’ll understand the how and why meteorites are valuable to humanity.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?

This is a question I get all the time, usually from people who have found or who have recently purchased a meteorite. People want to know what a meteorites value is, where they can get it classified, or where and if they can buy and sell meteorites.

This article is based on an industry average and information compiled from a number of online and textual resources.

I’d like to provide a quick analogy. Meteorites are like cars. Some cars are very expensive and are worth a great deal of money due to their rarity, like the Roll Royce for example. When compared to a sub compact or family sedan a Ferrari is worth much much more. Quality is the first thing you think of the governs the value, then you consider aesthetics, and finally rarity. Meteorites are valued in much the same way as any commodity really.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?
by Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

Meteorites are worth a lot of money! They are more rare than gold and some are even more valuable than diamonds. Some meteorites are priceless scientific and cultural treasures, and though some meteorites hold this high value, the majority aren’t worth much at all. This seems counter intuitive and doesn’t make much sense does it? Read on and you’ll understand the how and why meteorites are valuable to humanity.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?

This is a question I get all the time, usually from people who have found or who have recently purchased a meteorite. People want to know what a meteorites value is, where they can get it classified, or where and if they can buy and sell meteorites.

This article is based on an industry average and information compiled from a number of online and textual resources.

I’d like to provide a quick analogy. Meteorites are like cars. Some cars are very expensive and are worth a great deal of money due to their rarity, like the Roll Royce for example. When compared to a sub compact or family sedan a Ferrari is worth much much more. Quality is the first thing you think of the governs the value, then you consider aesthetics, and finally rarity. Meteorites are valued in much the same way as any commodity really.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?
by Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA

Meteorites are worth a lot of money! They are more rare than gold and some are even more valuable than diamonds. Some meteorites are priceless scientific and cultural treasures, and though some meteorites hold this high value, the majority aren’t worth much at all. This seems counter intuitive and doesn’t make much sense does it? Read on and you’ll understand the how and why meteorites are valuable to humanity.

How Much Are Meteorites Worth?

This is a question I get all the time, usually from people who have found or who have recently purchased a meteorite. People want to know what a meteorites value is, where they can get it classified, or where and if they can buy and sell meteorites.

This article is based on an industry average and information compiled from a number of online and textual resources.

I’d like to provide a quick analogy. Meteorites are like cars. Some cars are very expensive and are worth a great deal of money due to their rarity, like the Roll Royce for example. When compared to a sub compact or family sedan a Ferrari is worth much much more. Quality is the first thing you think of the governs the value, then you consider aesthetics, and finally rarity. Meteorites are valued in much the same way as any commodity really.

A meteorite’s value is based on a number of factors including:

* TYPE (ie; stone chondrite, achondrite, stony iron, or iron; Lunar and Martian meteorites are typically worth a great deal more than any other type)
* CLASSIFICATION
* RARITY
* AESTHETICS
* TKW (Total known Weight, Main Mass)
* RECOVERY COST (based on how much it cost the collector or person selling the meteorite to hunt, find, classify and sell)

This list is by no means fully comprehensive in scope. It’s simply some basic variables that help to give you a general idea of the value of meteorites as a whole. Meteorites are rare. Rarer in fact than Gold and diamonds, however their value is determined by numerous variables. Here are a few of the main factors.

TYPES: A meteorites type typically refers to the 3 main groups of meteorites

* STONE (Chondrites)
* STONY IRON (Pallasites & Mesosiderites)

STONE METEORITES: There are different types of stone meteorites such as achondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, lunars, martian meteorites, etc. but for this article we will concentrate on the main categories and not in depth definitions of types. Stone Meteorites are the most common type, referred to as Ordinary Chondrites. Chondrite meteorites come in all shapes and sizes and make up about 80% of the meteorites found on the planet. Sliced an polished ston meteorites make great display pieces. I’m rather partial to stone meteorites simply because of the great diversity of types. There are probably as many types of meteorites as ther are minerals on Earth.

STONY IRON METEORITES: In this category you’ll find Pallasite meteorites, and mesosiderites. Pallasites are iron meteorites with large numbers of olivine crystals scattered throughout a nickel iron matrix of the meteorite. Some pallasites like the Esquel Pallasite, have some gem quality olivine crystals. Mesosiderites are the other stony iron and are neat little meteorites, because they consist of about 50% iron and 50% silicate materials making up it’s rich matrix. They’re not exactly as pretty as a pallasite but they’re beautiful in their own right.

IRON METEORITES: These are some of the most rare (not as rare as pallasites) meteorites on Earth and make up only 5% of all known finds/falls. Canyon Diablo (Meteor Crater in Arizona) is an iron meteorite. Campo del Cielo, is a huge iron meteorite that was discovered in South America in 1576, some 200 years before we become a nation! Time of fall, about 4000-6000 years ago. SOURCE: Meteorite Market Iron meteorites are not always worth more than a chondrite just because they are more rare than a stone meteorite. Some, like the Campo, can be purchased for less than .50/g or lower, whereas a Franconia Chondrite meteorite is worth between $1g to $2g at the time of this writing.

CLASSIFICATION: A meteorite that has been classified is generally worth more than an unclassified meteorite. Some meteorites aren’t classified but hold a very high value because of their type. Experienced meteorite collectors and enthusiasts, including scientists buy sell and trade unclassified meteorites all the time. Most meteorites that are sold (NWAs) are not classified because of the sheer number of specimens and lack of available labs to do the proper classification work. To classify a meteorite there are a set of guidelines one must consider.

The Meteoritical Society issues names or numbers to classified meteorites based on these guidelines. Lab tests must verify the specimen is in fact meteoritical,, then more tests are performed to determine the type, chemical properties, mineralogical makeup, and finally the specimen will be issued a name; or a number in the case of NWA meteorites. There is much more to meteorite classification than this, but it will give you a good idea of what it takes to get one classified.

RARITY: Rare meteorites obviously are worth considerably more than your typical stone (ordinary chondrite) meteorite. However, a stone meteorite can be a rare meteorite. For example, the Allende which fell February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua, Mexico is a rare type of stone meteorite called a carbonaceous chondrite, scientist believe this type of meteorite may be the oldest known matter in the universe. This stone meteorite has been classified CV3. Read the short article on Meteorite Market about the formation of meteorites. Ordinary chondrites on the other hand, are just that, ordinary.

They’re plentiful and readily available to anyone for reasonable price. Iron meteorites are rare in that they make up about 5% of all known meteorite falls so this fact alone of course increases their value. Stony iron meteorites such as pallasites and mesosiderites are rarer than your average iron meteorite and therefore are worth more gram for gram. Lunars (meteorites from the moon) and Martian (meteorites from Mars) are worth a great deal more than any other meteorite on the planet because of their rarity alone. Not that they are made of especially wonderful minerals and house some wondrous chemical properties, but simply put, they’re worth more because they’re so rare. They do exhibit some rare minerals but they’re insignificant in abundance to really affect value to a large extent.

AESTHETICS: Another value enhancing aspect of a meteorite’s worth is aesthetics. If a meteorite is more pleasing to the eye, has a sculpted shape, or perhaps a hole, it tends to be worth more per gram than a meteorite in the same classification, and type. Say for example you own a Sikhote Alin iron meteorite with a hole through it. This piece would be worth more.

Sikhote Alin meteorites are highly sought after by meteorite collectors for their aesthetic value alone. If you’ve ever heard the term, “That’s what a meteorite should look like.” Then the Sikhote iron would be the one most likely referred to. Another factor in aesthetic value is display. How the meteorite displays is only somewhat important. Does it look “cool”? Is is weirdly shaped? Does it look like anything, a boat for example, or maybe a pointy finger. I sold a small unclassified meteorite for more than $1/g only because it looked like a pointy finger. The same type meteorite I normally sell for .20/g to .60/g. This is a good example of a sculpted shape, increasing the value of a meteorite.

Some other aesthetic sub-factors include:

* FUSION CRUST
* REGMAGLYPTS
* SHAPE
* WEIGHT & DENSITY
* WEATHERING

FUSION CRUST: If a stone meteorite is fully fusion crusted it is worth more than a partially crusted specimen. Usually the higher the percentage of fusion crust the higher the value. The quality of the crust is also important. If a meteorites crust cracked and weathered it is typically worth less than if the crust is pristine and “fresh”. A newly fallen meteorite will have a freshly blackened crust, whereas a meteorite that fell say, 10,000 years ago might have weathered brownish crust. Desert varnish is sometimes mistakenly referred to as fusion crust.

REGMAGLYPTS: Or Thumprints, are the small indentations, scoops, and ridges on the surface of a meteorite. Usually the deeper, larger and more thumbprinted a meteorite is, the more it’s worth.

SHAPE: The shape of a meteorite is a major factor when considering value. Highly sculptured specimens are more valuable than rounded and featureless meteorites.

WEIGHT & DENSITY: This is not a huge factor but it does have some affect on a meteorites value. Meteorites tend to be heavier than Earth rocks of similar size. However we’re not comparing weight with terrestrial rocks, we’re comparing to other meteorites. Higher iron content in stone meteorites will make the specimen weigh more than a meteorite of similar size and by weight alone will be worth more. Aesthetics do play some part in this as well. When a meteorite is sliced and polished it reveals the interior of the stone and therefore the iron inside. Some meteorites like the Gujba meteorite which fell in Nigeria in 1984 has iron nodules that increase its density weight, therefore increasing it’s weight to size ratio. This makes it worth more, not to mention its beautiful aesthetic value. Meteorites like the Gujba are also rare.
WEATHERING: A meteorites weathering also plays a large part in determining how much a meteorite might be worth. If a meteorite is OLD, in other words it fell tens of thousands of years ago, it will have been subjected to thousands of years of erosion and corrosion caused by weather fluctuations over time. For example, an iron meteorite that fell on a beach in Florida wouldn’t last very long; perhaps 50 years or less depending on it’s size and how exposed to the elements it was. The Nantan meteorite is a perfect example of an iron meteorite that has been subjected to corrosion.

Meteorites contain iron or are all iron. An iron meteorite will deteriorate at a much faster rate than a stone meteorite in a humid environment. Imagine what happens to meteorites that fall in our oceans. Oceans cover some 70% of the Earth’s surface, given this fact, it’s not surprising to learn that 70% of the meteorites that have ever hit out planet have landed in the water never to be found. Deserts are prime meteorite hunting grounds because of the lack of water or humidity. The arid climates are what saves the meteorite from certain doom. Eventually however, over hundreds of thousands of years, wind-blown sand, earthquakes, floods, and other natural phenomena will weather away to dust even the heartiest of meteorites. If a meteorite is highly weathered it’s worth less. If it’s been well preserved and in good condition it’s value is increased exponentially.

TKW: Or TOTAL KNOWN WEIGHT plays a large part in a meteorites value. If a new fall meteorite, or old for that matter, has a low TKW then it will obviously be worth quite a bit more than another similar sample of the same type and classification. It’s basically all about logic. If you own all of something rare, and there’s a demand for it, then it’s worth more. Pretty simple really. A fall of a single stone meteorite weighing in at only a couple hundred grams, will be worth more than a meteorite of the same type with a higher TKW. Think of gold as an example. If gold were abundant and everyone could own a few pounds then it would decrease in value. However since we know how rare gold really is, and that it’s very hard locate, it’s worth is increased. Gold’s value is also affected by aesthetics, just like diamonds, rubies,
emeralds, etc. You get the point.

RECOVERY COST: This value factor is based on how much it costs a discovery team or individual hunter to procure any given meteorite. Some meteorite hunters and scientists spend tens of thousands of dollars to recover meteorites from remote parts of our planet. You can imagine how much money is spent to recover a meteorite in Antarctica for example versus finding one in the deserts of the southwest. If you live close enough to an area where meteorites have been found and you happen upon one, then unless it’s a rare type it’s not going to worth very much. Maybe a $1 or so per gram. Lunar and Martian meteorites sell for thousands of dollars per gram and meteorite hunters spend thousands hunting and buying samples from other hunters and dealers. When selling any meteorite the recovery cost is a significant factor in determining value. Cleaning and prepping a meteorite for sale is of course yet another factor.

A meteorites worth is governed by a huge number of factors and is subjective at best. As you can see, determining the value of a meteorite is not easy. Irons are typically worth more than ordindary chondrites, pallasites more than irons, and of course Lunar and Martian meteorites are worth more than all of the types combined gram for gram.

INTRINSIC VALUE: Finally to make the valuing of meteorites complete one must consider the intrinsic personal and cultural value of meteorites.

SCIENTIFIC: Perhaps the most important value of all. The knowledge gained from the study of meteorites is priceless, and should be at the top of the list when considering the value and worth of any given meteorite specimen.

Meteorite collecting is a great and fun hobby and many people are fascinated by meteorites. When you
realize that the value of any given meteorite is dependent upon a great deal more than the fact it’s a meteorite, you’re one step closer to finding out how much your meteorites are worth.

To hold in you hand a piece of cosmic debris older than the Earth itself, and when you realize and understand that the stone you hold may contain within it the answers to the greatest mysteries of our universe then your now understand why meteorites are so valuable.

© Copyright 2010 Eric Wichman – Meteorites USA

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