Sometimes people don’t know what they’ve got, until it’s gone. Or, until they take it to a scientist. A farmer and his son saw a large, strange looking rock fall out of the sky and land with a huge boom way back in the 1930s. So, obviously, they used it as a door stop on a barn.
Which is kind of odd considering that it was during the Great Depression and even then, the scientific community and collectors would have paid big money for something like that. Then again, public education wasn’t real big in those days. I wonder if they tried to eat it.
Fast forward to the 80s when David Mazurek bought the land. They told him it was a meteorite that came from space. Obviously his first thought was…… door stop. That is, until recently when he decided to take it to a Geologist at Central Michigan University. It’s a 22 pound, large iron- nickel meteorite with a lot of nickel in it. That door stop turned out to be worth $75,000. He sold it to the university’s planetarium.