'We all looked at each other, sort of hesitant glances, excited glances because we knew that if what we were looking at was a meteorite, then we had really hit the mother lode here.'
She recently returned to Chicago after finding a massive meteorite in the Antarctic. It weighs nearly 17 pounds and could hold secrets about the beginning of our solar system.Of all the discoveries made in the Field Museum, all the meteorites on display, Maria Valdes said her favorite is the one that she found thousands of miles away.
It's her first day back after a month in Antarctica, where on the last day, in the last hour of her expedition, made a massive discovery. This is what they found -- A nearly 17 pound meteorite, that along with the micro-meteorites already back in Chicago, could help these cosmo-chemists better understand the very beginnings of our solar system.
Valdes said they carefully wrapped and transported the rock to their base camp, one of the largest ever discovered.
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