Author: Brandon A. Weber / Source: Big Think
- It landed on a farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1930, and is estimated to be 4 billion years old
- When the house was sold, it was included in the sale by the farmer who had no idea of its value, but had quite a story about finding it
- If you see a meteorite fall to Earth and remain at least partially intact, it would be in your best interest to run (or drive, quickly) to find it!
It’s not often that Mona Sirbescu, a professor of geology at Central Michigan University, has actually had someone come in with what they thought was a meteorite, and then found it to be true. In fact, this is the only time it’s happened to her.
People bring things there frequently, and they’re never meteorites. However, a man named David Mazurek showed up recently with a specimen that proved be the the bonafide thing. “For 18 years, the answer has been categorically ‘no,’ meteor wrongs, not meteorites,” Sibescu quipped in a statement from CMU on Thursday.
Weighing in at 22.5 lbs., and made of 88.5 percent iron and 11.5 percent nickel, Mazurek’s rock is only the 12th actual meteorite to be identified in the state. “I could tell right away that this was…
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