Australian David Hole in 2015 was exploring through Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne in the Australia. The man, with a metal detector, found a heavy and reddish stone, which over time was peeling and turning yellow.
Thinking that he could find gold inside it, the Australian took the stone home and tried to open it in every way, even dipping it in acid, but without success. This region of Goldfields, where exploration was taking place, is known for the amount of gold found at the time of the Australian gold rush in the 19th century.
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After years that the stone was already under his control, Hole discovered that it was, in fact, a meteorite rare.
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Melbourne Museum geologist Dermot Henry told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2019 that the stone “had a
chiseled and dimpled appearance. […] This is formed when they pass through the atmosphere, they are melting outside and the atmosphere carves them out”.After failing to open the stone, Hole took it to the Melbourne Museum to get more information about it. Dermot Henry said that for years he analyzed several rocks, and in only two cases were real meteorites. This was one of those cases.
“if you saw onerockatEarthhow are you and took it, no it should be so heavy,” reports Henry.
A scientific article was published about the stone, which was more than 4.6 billion years old. She was named Maryborough after the place where she was found. In addition, it weighed about 17 kg, and the researchers were able to cut it with a diamond saw.
After cutting, the researchers were able to verify that the stone has a high percentage of iron, which makes it a common H5 chondrite. Droplets of crystallized minerals, chondruffs, were also observed.
“Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. they us carry back in time,providing clues about Theage, training and chemical of our Solar System (including TheEarth),” Henry explains.
rarer than gold
According to the researchers, the Maryborough meteorite is rarer than gold, which makes it a very valuable article for the science of the planet.
"This oneonly the 17th meteorite found in Victoria,while thousands of nuggets of gold they were found”, explained Henry to Channel 10 News. “Looking for Thechain of events, it can be said that is enough astronomical have been discovered”, added the geologist.
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