Posted on 11/26/2022 5:59:17 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.
Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.
He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.
To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even dousing the thing in acid. However, not even a sledgehammer could make a crack. That's because what he was trying so hard to open was no gold nugget.
As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite.
"I've looked at a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites," Henry told Channel 10 News.
In fact, after 37 years of working at the museum and examining thousands of rocks, Henry said only two of the offerings had ever turned out to be real meteorites.
This was one of the two.
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Also size. Kinda like diamonds, small ones are actually fairly common. Big ones are not.
You have to wait for Festivus and the feats of strength.
Could be but I was thinking of the movie “Creepshow” and a Steven King “Jordy” a ner do well farmer finds a meteor and burns his hand on it, licks his fingers and touches it again. Things go from bad to worse from there.
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