Australian David Hole was incredibly lucky when, armed with a metal detector, he dug under a layer of clay near Melbourne, a large reddish stone weighing 17 kilograms. For a long time David was sure that nature had hidden a gold nugget inside the unusual stone.
To get to it, David had to try a lot of tools – a special saw, a bolt cutter, a drill, acid, and even a sledgehammer. But all his efforts were to no avail – the stone was too much for him. Having realized the futility of his efforts, he sent the find to the Melbourne Museum for identification, where geologist Dermot Henry, after a careful examination of the stone, realized that he was faced with a unique meteorite, which became the second in the museum’s collection.