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Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable. (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

TLDR: meteorite

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago

[–] Cyberbatman@lemmings.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kind of bum that the article did not mention how much it was worth

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The researchers argue that the Maryborough meteorite is much rarer than gold, making it far more valuable to science.

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[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Just imagine how many science they could get if they traded it in!

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.