[BenLurkin]

“For 18 years, the answer has been categorically ‘no’ — meteor wrongs, not meteorites”

[Red Badger]

The farmer said that it had come down onto the property in the ’30s — “and it made a heck of a noise when it hit,” the new owner recalled him saying, according to CMU’s statement. In the morning, the farmer and his father found the crater and dug out the still-warm meteorite.

[stockpirate]

Man in VA during the 1800’s had a large rock as a door stop. If I recall it weighed 6 pounds. He had it there for years having found it on his property. Turns out it was a 6 pound piece of gold. He found more on his property.

[1FreeAmerican]

What the hell does “an oddly shaped rock” look like?

[Red Badger]

[RightGeek]

I want the doorstop rock that started the Carolina Gold Rush:

The Carolina Gold Rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed. He spotted the nugget while playing in Meadow Creek on his family's farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.[2]:11 [3] Conrad took the 17 lb gold nugget home to show his father. However, gold was not commonly seen in their community and the value of the nugget was not understood. The nugget was used as a door stop in the family's home for several years. In 1802, Conrad's father, John Reed, showed the rock to a jeweler, who recognized it as gold and offered to buy it. Reed, still unaware of the real value of his "doorstop," sold it to the jeweler for $3.50 (approximately one week's pay for a farm laborer at that time).

From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Gold_Rush

[PLMerite]

This is a nice departure from the (seemingly) usual thing the doorstop turns out to be - some piece of live ordnance.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Here it is:

She love me like a rock.

[TheConservativeParty]

Found a similar rock in our field this year. Should take it to the university for identification.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mr.GG2 took his similarly sized meteorite to the Univ of Washington for the same reason. He had been offered $35,000 for it. The University kept it, refused to return it, cut it up into smaller pieces to share around with other universities and told him it was too rare for a private individual to own. He had to go to court and sue them for theft. The judge ordered the Univ to bring the meteorite to court. They showed up with a piece about the size of a cigarette pack. So he gave Mr. GG2 a $50000 judgement and the University has refused to pay so he will likely never get the money. Never take a meteorite to a University. 😡