[DUMBGRUNT]

Finders keepers?

[Jonty30]

I don’t know why it would be called valuable, because I’m seeing prices for about $2.50/gm, which doesn’t suggest high value.

It’d be worth about $8500, based on its weight. That’s a nice bonus cheque, but hardly in the realm of diamonds or gold.

[marktwain]

I thought I had found a meteorite, once.

It turned out to be ilmenite ejecta from a local volcano.

[lurk]

I know a jeweler who handcrafts meteors into wedding bands. Very pretty.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

At least it would have been worth something, had it not been for the:

rock saw
angle grinder
drill
acid
sledgehammer

;)

[ealgeone]

Remember the Andromeda Strain? Andromeda came from a meteor.

In the movie Life, Calvin came from a meteor.

In the movie Green Slime...the Green Slime came from a meteor.

The point? Bad things come from meteors.

[zeebee]

All he needed to do was try to stick a magnet to it.

[RedMonqey]

I hope he didn’t lick his fingers, touch it then lick his fingers again.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, he'll wind up being a super villain like Vandal Savage or a Super hero like the Atom.

[CFW]

My family has always been rock lovers and our rock-lined deck-top railings are proof of that fact. My mother recently passed away, and I told my sisters in jest that the only thing we would probably argue about was who got the rocks.

After working for several weeks to clean out the house (all with no argument), we finally came to the outside deck to divide up the rocks. There are a couple that might possibly be from a meteor since it it documented that a meteorite hit the property about a half a mile back from my folks’ property back in the 40s. One of the meteors from that site is in a museum.

When we went to look at the rocks, one was obviously missing. It was a large quartz crystal rock that mother had found when we were clearing the property back in the 1960s when they first purchased the place. That quartz rock has been a door stopper, a decoration, and the “treasure” we as kids searched for as we had our pretend adventures as children. I know it was there the weekend my mother passed away, since I remember looking at it while sitting outside one night trying to pull myself together knowing her time was near.

It really ticks me off that someone stole that rock and if I find out who has it, I will make sure they are prosecuted and haunted for the remainder of their sorry life!

[dead]

At 37.5 lbs it would have been worth just under a $1,000,000 if it was pure gold. As iron, even iron from space, it's not worth its weight in gold.

It's cool though.

[logi_cal869]

There’s a lesson in there.

[nagant]

[GingisK]

I have a meteor that weighs something like 80 pounds.