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Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable. (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think their take is kind of questionable. It may be more valuable to science but its monetary value is almost certainly less than gold.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The writing is at morning program levels of goofiness; it's jarring. At 17 kg this meteorite would be worth over a million USD if it was gold. It's like the writer is taking a piss at the poor guy who hoped to get some money out of it.