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Posted on 10/05/2018 2:32:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A Michigan man recently discovered that the rock he had been using as a doorstop for years was actually a meteorite valued at at least $100,000.
..."For 18 years, the answer has been categorically 'no' — meteor wrongs, not meteorites," Sirbescu said jokingly in a CMU statement.
It wasn't until this year that her answer was finally changed to a yes.
...After purchasing the land, the man put the rock to good use — a trusty doorstep like it had been for most of its Earth life.
That's how it landed with Sirbescu, who then took the meteorite to one of the labs on CMU's campus, where it was examined under an X-ray fluorescence instrument. It was determined that it was an iron-nickel meteorite with about 88 percent iron and 12 percent nickel, which is a metal rarely found on Earth. For reference, most iron meteorites are made up of about 90-95 percent iron.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
When I was five or six years-old the neighbor across the street had a heavy, pitted brown rock for a front door stop.
A bunch of us kids were sitting on the steps arguing if was a metorite or not. The kid at the top of the step dropped the rock by accident and it landed on top of a kid’s head who was sitting a few steps below.
The kid had blonde hair and there was blood all over the place, looked much worse than it really was but the mother of the house nearly lost her mind.
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