Australian David Hole was exploring Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne in 2015 Australia. The man, with a metal detector, found a heavy and reddish stone, which over time was peeling and turning yellow.
Thinking he could find gold in it, the Australian took the stone home and tried to open it in every way, even dipping it in acid, but without success. This Goldfields region where the exploration was taking place is known for the amount of gold found at the time of the Australian Gold Rush in the 19th century.
After years of the stone under his control, Hole discovered that it was, in fact, a meteorite down.
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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 forms when they pass through the atmosphere, they are melting outside and the atmosphere cuts 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 has analyzed various rocks, and only in two cases were they real meteorites. This was one of those cases.
“if you saw one rocha already Land how and I took it, no should be so heavy“, says Henry.
A scientific paper has been published on the stone, which was more than 4.6 billion years old. It was named Maryborough after the place where it 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, making it a common H5 chondrite. Droplets of crystallized minerals, chondrons, have also been observed.
“Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. they us for transport come back in time, by providing clues about a age, training and chemistry Do Our Solar system (including a Land)Henry explains.
rarer than gold
According to researchers, the Maryborough meteorite is rarer than gold, making it a very valuable item for planetary science.
“IS alone the 17th meteorite found in Victoria, While thousands of croquettes of gold were to found”, Henry explained to Channel 10 News. 🇧🇷Watch for a chain of events, one can say so it’s enough astronomical have been discovered,” added the geologist.
