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on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:30AM
from the the-doorstop-what-came-from-outer-space dept.
from the the-doorstop-what-came-from-outer-space dept.
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Doorstop turns out to be meteorite worth $100K
A Michigan man curious about a rock he'd used for decades as a doorstop now knows its secret: it's a meteorite worth $100,000.
In fact, the nearly 23-pound hunk of iron and nickel is the sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan, according to the Smithsonian Museum and Central Michigan University.
David Mazurek said he took his doorstop to the university for examination after seeing reports in January of meteorite pieces selling for thousands of dollars.
[...] Mazurek said the meteorite came with a barn he bought in 1988 in Edmore. He said the farmer who sold him the property told him it landed in his backyard in the 1930s.
Also at CMU News; YouTube video
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @04:19AM
I know they are a click-bait PR bullshit site, but when I enabled javascript for that site to see if they display the rock's image, firefox froze. What a toxic garbage.