It rocked his world.
Incredibly dense for its size at almost 40 pounds, finder Dave Hole of Australia was convinced it must have contained a nugget of the precious metal. However, not even a mighty swing of his sledgehammer could put a dent in the rock.
It is now nicknamed the Maryborough meteorite after the town Hole had uncovered the otherworldly mass. Henry says it likely only came to Earth a mere 200 years ago or less. “This particular meteorite most probably comes out of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it’s been nudged out of there by some asteroids smashing into each other, then one day it smashes into Earth,” Henry told Channel 10 News,“It was just potluck, mate. A billion to one – bigger, a trillion to one,” said Hole. “Got more chance of being struck by lightning twice.
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