Facebook users flagged a story this week as prospective codswallop, bearing the headline “A rock that was used as a doorstop for the past 30 years turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100K.”
The rock arrived on Earth sometime in the 1930s, according its owner, who obtained it in 1988 when he bought a farm in Edmore, about 30 miles southwest of Mount Pleasant. While touring the property, the man spotted the rock propping open a door and asked the farmer what it was. The farmer told him it was a meteorite, that it was part of the property and he could have it.
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