© Central Michigan UniversityThe meteorite is made up of mostly iron and nickel and is estimated to be worth over $100,000.
A US farmer and his son saw a shooting star come crashing onto their property one night in the 1930s. For decades, they and the subsequent landowner used the remnants as a doorstop. Now it has been valued at over $100,000.
"I could tell right away that this was something special," Mona Sirbescu, a geologist at Central Michigan University
said.
"It's the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically." Throughout her tenure, Sirbescu has frequently been asked to examine specimens of alleged space rocks, to see if they were worth any money.
"For 18 years, the answer has been categorically 'no' - meteor wrongs, not meteorites," she said. All that changed when an unnamed man from Grand Rapids, Michigan asked her to examine a rock he had in his possession since he bought a farm in 1988.
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