Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable.

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• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TLDR: meteorite

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• ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Cyberbatman@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Fester@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • luciole@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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