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Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable.
(www.sciencealert.com)
TLDR: meteorite
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Kind of bum that the article did not mention how much it was worth
The researchers argue that the Maryborough meteorite is much rarer than gold, making it far more valuable to science.
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Just imagine how many science they could get if they traded it in!
At least 3.
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.
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.