Maryborough meteorite

[Astronuc]

Attention @davenn

Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable.
https://www.sciencealert.com/man-ke...ts-gold-it-turned-out-to-be-way-more-valuable

"I've looked at a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites," Henry told Channel 10 News.

In fact, after 37 years of working at the museum and examining thousands of rocks, Henry said only two of the offerings had ever turned out to be real meteorites.

This was one of the two.

"If you saw a rock on Earth like this, and you picked it up, it shouldn't be that heavy," Melbourne Museum geologist, Bill Birch, explained to The Sydney Morning Herald.

The researchers published a scientific paper describing the 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite, which they called Maryborough after the town near where it was found.

Maryborough, a new H5 meteorite find from Victoria, Australia
https://connectsci.au/rs/article/131/1/18/33773/Maryborough-a-new-H5-meteorite-find-from-Victoria

The Maryborough meteorite is a new H5 ordinary chondrite discovered about 2 km south of Maryborough, Victoria, in May 2015. It is a single stone measuring approximately 39 × 14 × 14 cm and with a mass of 17 kg. Plentiful indistinct chondrules are up to 1 mm across in a strongly recrystallised plagioclase-bearing matrix. Olivine and orthopyroxene in both the matrix and chondrules are uniform in composition (Fo_80.1Fa_19.3Te_0.5Ca-ol_0.04 and En_81.5Fs_17.1Wo_1.5, respectively). The main metallic phases present are kamacite, taenite and tetrataenite, often forming composite grains with troilite. . . . .

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's the discoverer and the scientist and the ROCK:

 

[davenn]

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

cool, not sure that I knew about that one, let alone have a piece of it

thankyou