A 10-kilo meteorite was being used as a doorstop on a farm owned by a man named David Mazurek., until it was finally discovered by the scientific community several decades later.
“I could tell right away that this was something special. It is the most valuable specimen I have ever had, monetarily and scientifically,” Mona Sirbescu, a geologist at Central Michigan University (CMU), explained in 2018 after investigating the object.
David Mazurek, who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, asked Sirbescu to check a rock he had had for 30 years to see if it was a meteorite.
Sirbescu was used to objects sent to her turning out not to be meteorites, but this time the story was different.
The object called the Edmore meteorite turned out to be a huge metallic rock made of iron and nickelwith a fairly large amount of nickel of about 12%.
When Mazurek bought a farm in Edmore, Michigan, in 1988, the previous owner showed him around the property and saw that a large, strange rock was being used to prop a shed door open.
When Mazurek consulted the owner about the rock, they explained that it was actually a meteorite.
The man went on to say that, in the 1930s, he and his father saw the meteorite fall at night, right on their land.
The next day, they found the hole left by the object and removed the meteorite from the trench that had formed. According to what they said, it was still hot.
The man explained to Mazurek that since the meteorite was on his property, it now belonged to him.
For 30 years, Mazurek kept the rock and used it to hold the door open, except when his children brought it to school to display.
Over time, he noticed that people made money by finding and selling small pieces of meteorites. So he thought he should check out his big rock to see if it was worth anything.
In the end, Mazurek sold his meteorite to Michigan State University’s Abrams Planetarium for $75,000..
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