The fact they are bringing a magnet shows how confident they are its iron. My hypothetical scenario: "There's a chance its not iron but something new!" "What

The fact they are bringing a magnet shows how confident they are its iron. My hypothetical scenario: "There's a chance its not iron but something new!" "What chance is that?" "Its inverse to the chance we told our funders, who gave us millions to collect it with a magnet, that it was iron." "So its pretty guaranteed its iron" "Yup". "Aren't your funders concerned you are saying it could be something different than iron?" "You see the name of the university and a few corporations on the ship? Would you be talking to us if we were just getting a run of the mill iron metorite?"