260 kg iron meteorite unearthed in Polish wood.

[sandbender]

A short video from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20465921

This is quite a sizeable bit of metal to have fallen out of the sky (about five thousand years ago) and allegedly it is worth around $400,000.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Bloody hell! That's £1538 per kg! Once the grob and slag are ground off, I wonder how much will be available for making damascus hatchets and bushcraft knives?

 

[sandbender]

"...I wonder how much will be available for making damascus hatchets and bushcraft knives?.."

My initial thought was, ooo how many knifes, axes and swords in that? But then I heard how much it was valued at, I wonder if folks of old would know to dig at impact sites to recover the iron?

 

[Perrari]

That would make it mre expensive than a woodlore knife ! But how unique it would be.

Bloody hell! That's £1538 per kg! Once the grob and slag are ground off, I wonder how much will be available for making damascus hatchets and bushcraft knives?

 

[DavidJT]

.......Sky Iron!

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Bloody hell! That's £1538 per kg! Once the grob and slag are ground off, I wonder how much will be available for making damascus hatchets and bushcraft knives?

 

[sandbender]

"..xkcd.com/comics/metallurgy..."[/IMG]

XKCD Brilliant!

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

XKCD Brilliant!

Yep there is a XKCD for every possible event.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Yep there is a XKCD for every possible event.

And all events are possible, though most events are extremely improbable. I love xkcd.