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The most coveted meteorite is still the Kaaba black stone. 15 million people travel to it annually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone https://en.m.wik
by drcode 8y ago
The most coveted meteorite is still the Kaaba black stone. 15 million people travel to it annually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
- njarboe 8y agoAt the bottom of the linked page: "The meteoritic hypothesis is viewed by geologists as doubtful. The British Natural History Museum suggests that it may be a pseudometeorite, in other words a terrestrial rock mistakenly attributed to a meteoritic origin." The stone has not been sampled and scientifically examined.
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- drcode 8y agoUsually I'm a stickler for the truth, but since there's no way scientists will ever be able to examine the stone, I prefer not to let the unresolvable uncertainty get in the way of such a neat story.