If you buy meteorites from EBay, be sure you know your source. You might get cheated. For example lots of people sell tektites under the name of meteorites and they aren't. Tektites are Earth debris blasted up from a meteorite impact that then fall back to Earth. Tektites are more similar to lava bombs than meteorites.

As far as finding meteorites lying around, it isn't easy to do. There are some out there and many do fall every year, but there's also an awful lot of regular rocks and it's the old needle in the haystack problem.

I have a cane that I taped a very strong magnet to for hunting. After a couple of years of intermittent searching, I have some very unusual and very magnetic rocks but no meteorites except the few I have bought. But, it's been fun hunting. I have a few adventure stories to show for it as well.

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