David Hole kept the rock for years thinking it had gold in it, before researchers discovered it was a meteorite.

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A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery— it was a meteorite.

A couple in Marshfield on Price Edward Island, Canada got a nice surprise on their Ring doorbell camera feed last year. While ...

Named after the park where it was found, the Maryborough meteorite weighs 17 kilograms ... which are tiny crystallized droplets of metallic minerals that formed during the early stages of the ...

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, when he stumbled upon an unusually heavy, reddish rock embedded in yellow clay. Using his metal detector ...

During the decay of radioactive elements in the early history of the solar system, many asteroids melted and the iron they contained, being dense, sank to the centre to form a metallic core.

Most of the meteorites are regular chondrites, stony, non-metallic objects of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The research included a detailed survey of all the major asteroid families in the ...

This significant scientific find weighs 17 kilograms and contains crystallised droplets of metallic minerals. Dermot Henry and Melbourne Museum geologist Bill Birch with the Maryborough meteorite.