Maryborough meteorite, Meteorite in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia
The Maryborough meteorite is an iron-nickel rock on display at Melbourne Museum, weighing 17 kilograms with a distinctive dimpled surface. Its interior contains small mineral grains that formed in the early solar system billions of years ago.
A gold prospector named David Hole found this meteorite in May 2015 using a metal detector in clay soil near Maryborough. Scientific testing revealed it had landed on Earth sometime between 100 and 1000 years before its discovery.
The Melbourne Museum houses this meteorite among its collection of 400 specimens, making it accessible for scientific research and public education.
You can view the meteorite up close at Melbourne Museum and learn about its origins from space through the museum's displays. The exhibition provides clear information about how meteorites form and what they are made of for all visitors.
This meteorite belongs to the H5 chondrite group, which originates from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Finding it with a metal detector rather than through traditional geological surveys makes it a rare discovery in scientific records.
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