Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Someone found a mysterious stone and thought it was gold, but it turned out to be much more than anyone imagined.
The stone was discovered in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia in 2015 by David Hole. He took it home and tried to open it.
After trying to open it with a rock saw, grinder, drill and acid wash to no avail. Eventually Hole discovers that the rock does not contain gold, but a rare meteorite.
This information was obtained when Hole took it to the Melbourne Museum for identification.
“It has a dimpled sculpted appearance. They form as they pass through the atmosphere, they melt out and the atmosphere sculpts them,” Museum of Melbourne geologist Dermot Henry told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2019, quoted by Science Alert , Tuesday ( 10/1/2019). 2023).
In a scientific article, the researchers wrote that the meteorite named Maryborough was 4.6 billion years old. It weighs up to 17 kilograms and after being cut into small pieces a high percentage of iron is found which makes it the ordinary chondrite H5.
Once the meteorite has been opened, it reveals tiny metallic mineral crystallized droplets which are known as chondrules.
“Some provide glimpses of our planet. A number of meteorites, there’s ‘stardust’ that is even older than our Solar System, how stars form and evolve to create elements of the periodic table,” he said. explained. “Other rare meteorites contain organic molecules such as amino acids; the building blocks of life.”
Researchers do not yet know the origin and how long the meteorite has been on Earth. But they have some hypotheses, for example the possibility of an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
“This particular meteor probably came out of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was pushed out of there by several asteroids colliding with each other and then one day hitting Earth,” Henry explained.
Meanwhile the meteorites are on Earth between 100 and 1,000 years old by carbon dating. Science Alert links it to meteor sightings between 1889 and 1951 on Earth.
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