“I could tell right away that this was something special,” CMU geology professor Mona Sirbescu said. “It’s the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically.”
Sirbescu first identified it as more than just a rock. She then sent two pieces of it to the Smithsonian for confirmation.
Mazurek said he got the meteorite with a barn he bought in 1988. The farmer who sold him the property said it landed in the 1930s.
The Smithsonian and a mineral museum in Maine are interested in purchasing it.
“I’m done using it as a doorstop,” Mazurek said. “Let’s get a buyer!”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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