In 2015, a man named David Hole was searching for treasure with a metal detector in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, when he found a heavy, dark-colored stone that he had to pay attention to.
The Maryborough region is located in the Goldfields region, where no more than 19 Australian bullfights have been held. Because of this, Hole thought that his discovery might hide the precious metal inside.
In his house, the treasure hunter used a stone saw, burrs, furadeira and tied the stone in acid to see if there was really gold inside. However, all his attempts were unsuccessful, the stone remained intact.
Years later, after countless failures in trying to open the stone, Hole decided to take it to the Melbourne Museum to find out, only to find that he would never be able to open it properly, not with homemade hardware. Or that it was hiding our gold, it was actually a rare meteorite.
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The stone was a meteorite
- The meteorite was named Maryborough in honor of the town where it was found and described in a 2019 scientific paper;
- Data from the rock revealed that it formed about 4.6 billion years ago;
- It weighs 17 kilos and has a sculpted look with covings;
- Using a diamond saw to cut a small piece of metal, it was determined that the meteorite was composed mostly of iron.
Researchers don’t know how long the meteorite was on Earth or where it was before, but there are some assumptions. Based on stone carbon dates, it is proven that the collision with the planet 100 to 1000 years ago and meteorite sightings between 1889 and 1951 can correspond to when it was here.
As for its origin, it is believed to be probably part of the asteroid belt. The site is where most of the Solar System’s rocks and non-planet-forming rocks are found.
This particular meteorite probably sees the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was pushed out of it by some asteroids colliding with each other and one day collided with Earth.
Dermot Henry, a geologist at the Melbourne Museum, answers this question Channel 10 News
According to scientists, the stone found by Hole is much rarer than ours and is of extraordinary importance to science. That’s because thousands of precious metal fragments have been found in the state of Victoria, Australia, but this was only the 17th meteorite found.
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