Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A mysterious stone was discovered in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne in Australia in 2015. Its discoverer David Hole brought it home and estimated that it contained gold.
After trying to open it with a rock saw, grinder, drill and acid wash to no avail. Eventually Hole discovers that the stone isn’t filled with gold, but is a rare meteorite.
This information was obtained when Hole took it to the Melbourne Museum for identification.
“It has a dimpled sculpted appearance. They form as they pass through the atmosphere, they melt out and the atmosphere sculpts it,” said Melbourne Museum geologist Dermot Henry The Sydney Morning Herald 2019, cited by Scientific alarmMonday (11/28/2022).
In a scientific article, the researchers wrote that the meteorite named Maryborough was 4.6 billion years old. It weighs up to 17 kilograms and after being cut into small pieces a high percentage of iron is found which makes it the ordinary chondrite H5.
Once the meteorite has been opened, it reveals tiny metallic mineral crystallized droplets which are known as chondrules.
‘Some give glimpses of our planet. Some meteorites, there are’Stardust‘ which is even older than our Solar System, how stars formed and evolved to create the elements of the periodic table,” he explained. “Other rare meteorites contain organic molecules such as amino acids; constituent of life”.
Researchers do not yet know the origin and how long the meteorite has been on Earth. But they have some hypotheses, for example the possibility of an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
“This particular meteor probably came out of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was pushed out of there by several asteroids colliding with each other and then one day hitting Earth,” Henry explained.
Meanwhile the meteorites are on Earth between 100 and 1,000 years old by carbon dating. Scientific alarm he associated it with meteor sightings between 1889 and 1951 on Earth.
