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A man from Michigan recently learned that a large rock he had been using for almost thirty years as a French window is a rare meteorite valued at $ 100,000.
According to Central Michigan University, he bought this space object when he bought a farm, where he was used to hold an open door.
The man continued using it for this purpose for decades, but after learning that people were finding and selling small pieces of meteorites, he decided to have it analyzed.
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Meteorites discovered throughout the world through history
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On April 30, 2008, Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite, poses for the photo with the Meteorite at Bonham's Auction House, New York. Widely recognized as the most famous pallasitic meteorite in the world, found in the Gobi Desert, and considered as old as the solar system, the Fukang meteorite is expected to yield $ 2.7 million at an organized auction by Bonham's in New York on April 30th.
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A photo taken on June 26, 2017 shows a scientist from the Naturalis scientific museum in Leiden, showing an L6 type meteorite chondrite that fell on January 11, 2017 in Broek in Waterland. Dutch scientists celebrated Monday the discovery of the sixth meteorite discovered in the Netherlands in recent history, which, at 4.5 billion years, could be a sign of the birth of our solar system. The fist – sized meteorite, weighing about a pound, is crushed against the roof of a shed in the small town of Broek in Waterland, just north of Amsterdam, in January, probably traveling at the speed of a high-speed train.
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OREGON, UNITED STATES – 1920
The huge Willamette meteorite
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On April 30, 2008, Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite, holds a polished slice engraved with the meteorite at Bonham's Auction House, New York. Widely recognized as the most prominent pallasitic meteorite in the world, found in the Gobi Desert. As old as the solar system, the Fukang meteorite is expected to yield $ 2.7 million and the polished slice engraved, up to $ 20,000 at an auction organized by Bonham's to New York on April 30th.
(REUTERS / Mike Segar)
A local resident shows a fragment that would be part of a meteorite collected in a snow-covered field in the Yetkulski region, outside the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, on February 24, 2013. A meteor that exploded at Above the Ural Mountains in Russia The hunters hoped to be able to recover thousands of dollars each.
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Pieces of meteorite.
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Journalists gather around a piece of meteorite that, according to local authorities and scientists, was reportedly raised at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul and allegedly displayed in a local museum in Chelyabinsk on October 18, 2013. The meteorite has exploded in February in central Russia. In 2013, it rained fireballs over a large area and caused a shock wave that broke windows, damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people, according to local media reports.
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Colin Byrne (left), 3, and his brother Brandon, 7, observe the meteorite that recently fell from space on a New Jersey home. It was the centerpiece of a one day exhibition at the Rutgers University Geography Museum. The meteorite fell from the sky on January 2nd and landed on Srini Nageswaran's house in Freehold. It is now up to Mr. Nageswaran, who has not yet decided what he would do with the meteorite, what a research scientist at Rutgers says "as old as the solar system itself" .
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An object (C), which is a piece of meteorite according to local authorities and scientists, is exposed on the shore of Lake Chebarkul, after being lifted from the bottom of the lake, some 50 miles west of Chelyabinsk on 16 October. The meteorite exploded in central Russia in February 2013, raining fireballs over a large area and causing a shock wave that broke windows, damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people, according to media reports. local.
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A piece of meteorite is exhibited in an old frame at the Domenico Agostinelli museum in Dragona, near Rome, on October 30, 2014. Agostinelli, 74, has a passion that has led him over the past 60 years to pick up objects from all types, from ancient art to everyday objects of the past and the present. His collection includes a 65 million-year-old dinosaur egg, meteor fragments, a car that once belonged to the head of the American mafia Al Capone, a lock of hair of the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, toys, weapons, musical instruments of all kinds and many more.
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This photo taken on February 8, 2016 at the National Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen shows the meteorite that flew over Denmark on February 6. A woman found pieces of the meteorite near Ejby in Sealand, Denmark.
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Part of the Chelyabinsk meteorite is on display before a hearing of the House Administration Committee in the Longworth House office building on Capitol Hill, June 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. The meteorite fell on the ground February 15, 2013 and caused a lot of damage in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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On April 30, 2008, Marvin Kilgore, owner of the Fukang meteorite, lays his hand on part of the meteorite located in the Bonham Building's Auction House in New York. Widely recognized as the most prominent pallasitic meteorite in the world, found in the Gobi Desert. As old as the solar system, the Fukang meteorite is expected to yield $ 2.7 million at an auction organized by Bonham's in New York on April 30th.
(REUTERS / Mike Segar)
A meteorite from Mars planet at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center on September 15, 2015 in Houston, Texas.
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A piece of the Lorton, Virginia, meteorite that fell in Lorton, Va., On Monday, January 18, 2010, is on display at the National Museum of Natural History at the hearing of the Board of Directors of the House on "The State of the Smithsonian" at the Longworth House office building, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. In the background, part of the meteorite fell in Chelyabinsk, in Russia, February 15, 2013. The two meteorites are ordinary chondrites, originating from the Jupiter atrium belt.
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This photo taken on September 19, 2014 shows dozens of specimens of meteorites exposed in the spotlight in the Tong Xianping showroom in Urumqi, in the far west of China, in the Xinjiang region. A small check to a businessman, a giant leap to a meteorite: after trips of millions of kilometers, rocks formed from the primordial soup of the solar system have landed on the walls of one Chinese showroom.
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Two guards and Ludovic Ferrière (R) of the Confrerie Saint-Georges of the Ensisheim Meteorite Guard pose at the press conference and opening of an exhibition at the Natural History Museum on November 15, 2013 in Vienna , in Austria. The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite observed on November 7, 1492.
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Kaliningrad, Russia, December 5, 2002
A meteorite found in a sand quarry near Mamonovo was placed on a marble base in a street in Kaliningrad.
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French meteorite researchers Carine Bidaut (right) and Bruno Fectay (left) pose with three meteorite fragments from Mars, in Poligny, eastern France, on November 12, 2012.
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A photo taken on June 26, 2017 shows a scientist from the Naturalis scientific museum in Leiden, showing an L6 type meteorite chondrite that fell on January 11, 2017 in Broek in Waterland. Dutch scientists celebrated Monday the discovery of the sixth meteorite discovered in the Netherlands in recent history, which, at 4.5 billion years, could be a sign of the birth of our solar system. The fist-sized meteorite, weighing about 500 grams (1 pound), is smashed across the roof of a shed in the small town of Broek in Waterland, just north of Dartmouth. Amsterdam, in January, probably traveling at the speed of a high-speed train.
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The Bendego meteorite in Brazil around 1784.
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Louis Maurel, a French private collector, holds a meteorite found in a field near Nice, France. He has a small private museum in Barr? Me, in the Alpes-de-Haute Provence, France.
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It turned out to be "an iron-nickel meteorite containing about 88% iron and 12% nickel".
This composition is rare and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, plans to acquire the rock.
The man said he would donate "10% of the sale value to the university to fund students in earth sciences and the atmosphere."
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