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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable.

"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...

He tried breaking a strange rock with a hammer, drill or acid, it turned out to be a 4,60 ...

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...
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These $13,000 Shoes Contain Real Bits of Meteorite

Holy rich people, Batman! Netflix and New Balance have teamed up for a limited edition pair of sneakers that celebrates the upcoming release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up and they cost $13,200. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For the Only Person Ever Hit by a Meteorite, the Real Trouble Began Later

The “Hodges meteorite” brought problems to the woman it struck, but good fortune to at least one neighbor Kat Eschner Not the meteorite that struck Ann Hodges, this five-inch-long chunk was recovered ...

Man Spends Years Smashing Rock For Gold, Turns Out It's A 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...
New Scientist

Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...
Yahoo

These $13,000 Shoes Contain Real Bits of Meteorite

Holy rich people, Batman! Netflix and New Balance have teamed up for a limited edition pair of sneakers that celebrates the upcoming release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up and they cost $13,200. The ...