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Man Found Giant Stone of Gold At Park , Only To Realize Later it's More Valuable Than Gold
Apr 13, 2023
Man Found Giant Stone of Gold At Park , Only To Realize Later it's More Valuable Than Gold
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Dave hole was no stranger to treasure
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hunting while he had yet to find
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anything of real value it didn't stop
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him from exploring new terrain with a
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metal detector and his tools and on one
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fateful day as he walked through
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maryborough Regional Park he discovered
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something that would ultimately change
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his life before we start can we get this
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rock in 2015 Dave stumbled upon this
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strange looking Rock while going about
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his normal route he couldn't quite put
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his finger on it but he knew there was
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something strange about it besides how
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surprisingly heavy it was
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he had a hunch but he didn't want to get
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his hopes up hole took what he thought
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was gold or home and got to work trying
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to break it apart he tried everything he
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could but the thing was incredibly
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sturdy he even hit it with a
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sledgehammer which failed to scratch its
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surface stumped hole stored The Rock in
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his home for the next four years
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planning on one day getting all the gold
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out of it it wasn't until 2019 that he
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stuck it in his backpack and marched
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over to the Melbourne Museum
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there whole Med geologist Dermot Henry
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the person responsible for testing
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samples that people bring into the
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museum in particular a large part of his
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role involves examining possible
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meteorites to test their authenticity
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of course testing the specimens was
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really more of a formality than anything
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even after working at the museum for 37
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years and testing thousands of samples
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only two of those had ever turned out to
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be real meteorites this is why when Mr
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Hull walked into his office and hoisted
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a large red rock out of his backpack the
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scientists did a double take
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this particular artifact was very
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promising Henry thought it had this
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sculpted dimpled look to it he remarked
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that's formed when they come through the
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atmosphere they are melting on the
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outside and the atmosphere sculpts them
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could it really be true that this was
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the genuine thing
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upon lifting The Rock Henry was even
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more encouraged it was way heavier than
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it should have been for a normal rock
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found on Earth especially considering
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its size generally speaking meteorites
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tend to be heavier due to dense deposits
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of iron and nickel found inside of them
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all signs were pointing to Mr hole's
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Discovery being something very special
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indeed
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lo and behold when the tests were
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completed both Henry and whole were left
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in absolute amazement
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the Red Rock was a meteorite and even
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more fascinating it was an impressive
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4.6 billion years old which carries
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serious implications
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the geologist cut out a cross-section of
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the meteorite with a very powerful tool
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known as a diamond saw
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what they beheld was more awe-inspiring
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than almost anything the scientists had
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seen in his years of working
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the cross section revealed beautiful
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silver droplets inside but not just any
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droplets these have been formed billions
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of years ago crystallized from the cloud
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of incredibly hot gas that formed our
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solar system as we know it
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the name of the meteorite Mr Holt would
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soon learn was afod chandried H5
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crondroid had a highly interesting
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origin story much more intriguing than
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any gold deposit could ever hope to be
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4.6 billion years ago the universe was
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much different than it is today
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it was comprised of tons of these same
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rocks chondrite orbiting around the Sun
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looking at this meteorite was almost
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like looking at the origins of life
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itself eventually these chunks of
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chondrite would cluster together forming
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Earth as well as the other rocky planets
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luckily some of the fascinating material
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was still left over the majority of the
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remaining chandri now sits in the belt
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between Jupiter and Mars every now and
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then two pieces of it will collide
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leading to a one-of-a-kind event
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when this Celestial Collision happens
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the impacts sends shards of the
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otherworldly Rock hurtling towards Earth
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this is how the piece of chandried that
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was eventually discovered by Mr hole
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began its Journey
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due to the lack of weathering it's
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likely that this specific piece had only
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been on Earth for less than 200 years
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this makes it likely that someone had
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actually seen it fall
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sure enough a look at local newspaper
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records from the time almost confirmed
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this Theory as residents of maryborough
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in the 1950s report having seen Balls of
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Fire shooting across the night sky
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and modern experts are curious if Dave
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Wills find could be related to an
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extraterrestrial Discovery in a nearby
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town
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in September 1969 the village of
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Murchison in Victoria Australia was loud
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with talk about a mysterious meteorite
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flying through the sky of course the
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space Rock spoke for itself when it
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blared into the atmosphere with an
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otherworldly Roar after the meteorite
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collided with Earth people spread far
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and wide to search for its remnants
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the Murchison Community calmed the land
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cooperatively and systematically
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desperate to get a glimpse of some
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extraterrestrial crumbles the residents
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found a multitude of spaceships most of
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them being a charcoal gray color and
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exhibiting obvious indents as if made
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out of malleable clay
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but there was one more feature that
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stood out to the Rock foragers for one
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reason or another The Rock smelled and
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it was the kind of stench that you
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couldn't easily place where the smell
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came from and it lingered the rock
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fragments were described as snow like
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tar or methylated Spirits similar to
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denatured alcohol it was all too odd
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while some had to practically hold their
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breath others were unbothered by the
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meteorite set
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professors and scientists everywhere
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couldn't wait to get their noses near
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the stuff their snouts were practically
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itching after David Diemer a research
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professor of biomolecular engineering at
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the University of California Santa Cruz
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crushed up a marble-sized piece of the
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celestial Rock
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he wrote that he noticed a strange
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penetrating odor Rose from the mortar
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simultaneously Smoky Dusty and sour
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when meteorites make their way to Earth
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they bring loads of information with
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them regarding star formation and other
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miscellaneous secrets of the universe
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they're like alien carrier pigeons but
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to get to the bulk of set information
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researchers are often forced to burst
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meteorites open like pinatas
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scientists from the University of
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Chicago The Field Museum and other
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organizations that worked on the 2020
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paper searched for Pressler grains which
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are minerals older than our sun talk
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about Ancient Grains by analyzing these
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pre-solar carbs just kidding the
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researchers can configure their
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approximate age
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they crushed the space Rock to access
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that valuable pre-solar silicon carbide
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and proceeded to pour the fine powder
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into test tubes
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The Toots were transported between
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liquid nitrogen and hot water baths and
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bombarded with some really nasty acids
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as Jennica Greer a graduate student at
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the Field Museum and the University of
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Chicago and a co-author of the study put
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it their findings showed that some of
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the prezzler grains belonging to the
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stinky Murchison meteorite dated back to
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between five and a half and seven
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billion years old but after putting the
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rock through the the freeze thaw cycle
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something changed Jennica Greer recalls
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catching a whiff of rotten peanut butter
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as if there was a decaying PB energy
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sandwich in the room
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she suspected the rocks change in Aroma
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occurred as it lost volatile compounds
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over time later materializing when the
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grinding of the rock unveil new surfaces
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there are trap cases and Isis in the
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meteorite that evaporate and slowly
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diffuse out Jennica said
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we all know how smelly trapped gas can
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be
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a piece of the Murchison meteorite that
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resides at the Murchison and District
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Historical Society no longer has its gag
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inducing smell
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our sample has been exposed to air for
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too long it now only has a vague earthy
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smell said k-ball
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the Murchison meteorite isn't the only
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pungent carbonaceous chandride as the
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researchers also got to sniff ugwozarkus
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which was named after the Costa Rican
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Town it crashed in Circa 2019
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nicknamed The Cosmic my ball
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this space Rock was too made of organic
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compounds like amino acids though many
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said the cosmic mud ball stank of cooked
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brussels sprouts or compost Jennica
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strangely picked up the smell of vanilla
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you expected something more Terry but it
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has a sweet smell she said
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to clarify these brainy scientists and
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researchers didn't set out to merely
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play scratch and sniff with meteorites
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but their noses simply couldn't resist
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the opportunity
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as Jennica Greer said scientists are
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humans too sometimes our noses get the
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best of us