Australian Man’s ‘Gold Nugget’ Turns Out to Be a 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

The 4.6-billion-year-old Maryborough Meteorite, discovered in Victoria, Australia. Credit: William D. Birch et al. / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

A man searching for treasure with his metal detector believed he had found a giant gold nugget; instead, he…

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