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Heard about this on news radio.
Pressed for time this morning, so will post link and short quote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/02/spanish-farmer-discovers-_n_2997207.html
Pressed for time this morning, so will post link and short quote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/02/spanish-farmer-discovers-_n_2997207.html
A rock found by a Spanish farmer has been revealed to be an asteroid worth $5.3 million - 30 years since it was found and put to work as a press for curing meat.
Faustino Asensio Lopez found the 220-pound, 18-by-12-inch rock in 1980 while tending livestock with his father in their field, near Ciudad Real.
He assumed the rock was a remnant from Spain's civil war, and put it on the family's patio.
Eventually it was used as a ham press to cure meat.
But after he saw a TV show about meteorite sightings in Spain in 2011 he got in touch with a geologist - who was startled when Lopez showed him the prize object.
The rock turned out to be a pre-historic metallic meteorite, part of an asteroid or even a comet that hit the Earth.