Interesting. Just got that name in 2001.
Myself, I’ve long lusted over having a piece of The Meteorite From La Mancha. (Sadly the official name is much more prosaic.)
By interesting coincidence, while googling to see if any pieces of the Shangri-La fireball had been recovered, I found fresh stories about a meteorite recovered on Pawley Island, South Carolina (which would be a big deal–there are only 6 known meteorites for South Carolina.)
But.
Fresh meteorites are a black as coal. If you manage to collect one before it has been touched by rain, it may even have a fine black powder on the surface that will rub off on your fingers. Looking at those photos, I’m very confident that it is a meteorite and very, very skeptical that it is a fresh one. It looks to me like it has been weathered and sandblasted, and it looks like there is a patch of rust leaking out onto the surface. If those photos are accurate, I’m willing to go out on a limb there and say that that couple is either the victim of a practical joke or the perpetrators of a fraud and that meteorite came off Ebay and that that meteorite has sat in the northern Sahara for a century or ten. (I started to search completed auctions, but there are too many of them.)
(And before you ask, yes, I do believe that I know more about what fresh meteorites look like than a Clemson astrophysicist, depending on the astrophysicist. I own very fresh meteorites.)
Let’s not just make fun of this. Remember, this is what killed the dinosaurs off five thousand years ago.
I was recently given an expensive pocket watch that is a tad hard to read because the face is a gallium-coated slice of a meteor from Finland. Very pretty, though.
It isn’t coated in gallium (which would be an incredibly pointless thing to do) it is just that some sellers are for some reason mentioning the trace amounts of gallium found in Muonionalusta.
(A few years back Rolex also did a watch with a meteorite dial, this time with Gibeon. I don’t have one of the watches, but I do have one of the cut but unused discs.)