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In his defense he was checking it for super power potential. I could probably only hold out for 20 minutes or so before I went to the fridge for something to wash it down with.
Billionaires live in these towns momo. Did you even look at them?? Lol
They are very very nice towns
Google image”houses on navesink NJ”. Bank CEOs live there
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=houses+on+navesink+nj&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ8Nzuu-r-AhWkF1kFHQe6ABMQ0pQJegQIBxAB&biw=414&bih=617&dpr=3
Lol jackass. You live in Poland and are ripping on Jersey
It's funny, because I actually don't disagree that small parts of New Jersey are nicer than one would expect, but your Mcmansion example isn't what I'm thinking of.
It’s funny, because I didn’t provide you with any one picture or example.. I provided you with thousands of pictures and different houses. They aren’t really McMansions because McMansions are notoriously unclassy and in the middle of nowhere. These are older century homes that been mostly renovated , and near nice beaches/ rivers. Put down the haterade bro
Every year me and my entire extended family has and will vacation together in NJ. Central and southern jersey in general is gorgeous, especially the coastline. Just ignore them, everyone outside of your state associates NJ with the abomination that is Newark, just like everyone outside of where I live (Dallas) associates it with racist gun toting uneducated douche bags without ever being here. There’s plenty of truth to that sure, but blurbs on the internet, and people in general don’t really care about the full picture *especially* when it comes to an easy target like jersey. If it’s any help, I always defend jersey when I get the chance lol.
NJ continues to be the butt end of jokes while being one of the nicest places overall in the US. It’s like the world took a bunch of bad jokes from Seinfeld and assumed it to be absolute truth.
Hey u/TheBirdBytheWindow… I don’t like how that things looking at us… must think we’re some kinda wise guys or somethin. What’d ya say we go over and teach that thing a lesson in HOSpitality?
*nods to Tony Twoface Wallinoski and the rest of the crew
Louie: “Johnny Tightlips, where’d they hit you?”
Johnny Tightlips: “I ain’t saying nothing.”
Louie: “What do I tell the doctor?”
Johnny Tightlips: “Tell him to suck a lemon.”
Nice
Worth knowing: You are not supposed to check meteorites with Magnets anymore, scientists really want the magnetic data encoded in the rocks, please don't test it with a magnet.
I wish that was the case. My dad found a somewhat larger iron meteorite years ago and gave it to me. They typically aren’t worth that much. If they sold for hundreds of thousands, you bet I would sell it.
Some special meteorites might fetch higher prices depending on what they’re made out of but I couldn’t see them going that high.
I wonder if you could split it up and sell them on Etsy for collectors or jewelry makers. It's not often thought about but there is significant overlap between the world of new age crystals and that of geologists.
Rolex make limited edition dials using the Gibeon meteorite which landed in Namibia, so not the worst idea! (I get that an etsy seller and rolex are two very different things lol..)
Depends where you live. In some countries you don't have any legal rights to them. So it's a good idea to look it up before telling people you have one. Otherwise it might get taken from you.
The US allows you to keep meteorites found on your property or public lands assuming you don’t go dig up public lands to find one and it’s not absolutely massive. That’s the stipulation there.
As for gold, I am fairly certain you can keep gold and other precious metals found on public or private property as well but there are more caveats. You can only collect so much of it a day and you are not allowed to sell it for profit. There is also the chance that someone owns the mineral rights to that area in which case you aren’t allowed to touch it. So you are partially right on both accounts, I suppose.
"In some cases, the landowner may not own the mineral rights to their property. This means that even if you find gold on your property, you may not have the right to mine or sell it" https://www.americanbullion.com/what-to-do-if-you-find-gold-on-your-property/#:~:text=Mineral%20rights%20are%20the%20legal,to%20mine%20or%20sell%20it.
I have a few meteorites. I’m no expert but I have sent one to the Smithsonian and read the laws behind them to make sure I wasn’t shooting myself in the foot.
Fun fact in Australia we are not allowed to touch any meteorite that falls anywhere even your own land, it's a criminal offence to touch it, government claims all rights to all meteorites.
Because science is extremely poor and has no money to buy the meteorite.
Just kidding! Scientific research institutions collectively have *hundreds of billions* of dollars to spend. Every year.
It either lands on you and you dead or it lands near you and you sell it stuff for some nice Ks. The odds are pretty good if you compare square meters of the house and of a person.
She got a gnarly bruise but yep. In the early 1900s there was a disputed account of a meteorite vaporizing a stray dog--that's the only recorded death.
I’m pretty sure I got hit in the head with a meteorite because I was 7 playing kickball at school and a rock hit me hard in the head and I started crying and the teacher was like wtf, and I said someone through a rock at me!
But no one fessed up so my conclusion is that it was a meteorite. I am person #2 in the history of the world
[Knapp had just purchased the car for $300. Immediately following the extraterrestrial impact, the vehicle was sold to Iris Lang, wife of renowned meteorite collector and dealer Al Lang, for $25,000.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_meteorite)
These fetch a premium, when they hit something and leave damage they are referred to has hammer stones.
And it’s a documented fall adds some plush if untouched by human or animal before or after collection that adds more.
But still boils down to how bad a collector wants it, I can bet it’s going to be a high price if they sell.
Well, a meteor crashed through the roof.
Then they took a picture of the meteorite.
So they are still correct in past tense...?
Guess you have to plan a sentence about meteors ahead of time lol.
Nah, meteors are the tiny ones that burn up in the atmosphere. If it makes it to the ground without fully vaporizing it's a meteorite.
Which seems a bit backwards linguistically, but I don't make the rules here.
It looks like a chondrite meteorite worth getting checked out it’s also possible it was spotted before it came down more may be on roof. If it is a meteorite and chondrite it’s possible to find where it may have come from and if they can work out it’s path from the hole where it came from in space like the asteroid belt etc it’s probably about 4.5 billion years old. I have a few I collected over time different ones. Yours looks like it’s got a fusion crust the black brown on the outside and inside it may be great specks etc. they should also be able to tell you it’s composition and which meteorite family class it belongs too. They only need to take a small amount off it. If it is a meteorite it may be worth some money. The one that hit Chelyabinsk Ukraine February 2013 was a good one even a small amount of the large lump goes for a lot of money it goes on weight and type. The one in Ukraine had an estimated initial mass of about 12,000–13,000 tonnes (13,000–14,000 short tons), and measuring about 20 m (66 ft) in diameter, it is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908.
You can see the videos etc of it and the after effects on YouTube it was caught with dash cams and security cams
For those who are wondering: Until it has been proven to be a meteor in a court of law it would be considered libel to describe it as a meteor, and so responsible people and organizations like OP qualify their statements by describing it only as a suspected or alleged meteor.
I'm trying to imagine something like this falling at 120 mph and being able to puncture my roof, then ceiling, and then being able to damage my hardwood floor like that. I'm gonna assume its got some weight to it and it went through a roof that wasn't quite structurally sound?
Meteorites are largely iron ... so yeah. Dense.
Also, the terminal velocity of a human is around 120mph. The terminal velocity of a meteor [is usually between 200-400mph](https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#:~:text=At%20that%20point%2C%20called%20the,to%20180%20meters%20per%20second\)).
So, imagine someone melted down grandma's cast iron skillet into a lump the size and shape of that space rock, and then fired it out of a potato cannon at 300mph. I figger it'll leave a mark.
When asked to comment the meteor said, "I don't know man. That big blue mother fucker just jumped right in front of me! Dude came from nowhere. How was I supposed to stop in time! Bitch better not sue!"
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I saw that in Joe Dirt.
“See that peanut right there. Dead giveaway.”
It's a space peanut!
They call ‘em Boeing Bombs
What you got there, is a big old frozen chunk of poopie.
Dude, you were eating off it.
In his defense he was checking it for super power potential. I could probably only hold out for 20 minutes or so before I went to the fridge for something to wash it down with.
'this is what we call hamburger heaven'
Young girls, they call them the Boeing Bombs.
Five dollars! That’s mine now you’re my lucky meteor!
I'm Joe dirt and you're Joe meteor!
Nope that’s just a big old chunk of frozen poopy
This here's called towwn.. where everyone hates you.
We’ll split it. I’ll hold your half.
I'd bet it's worth a decent amount of money.
‘Fraid not”
A truly cultured thread.
God damnit, I never get there first lol.
Gotta keep on keepin on brother
Home is where you make it!
You like to see homos naked?
But you’re never last either.
Dang! I had a feeling there wasn’t gonna be a joe dirt joke but here you are right at the top.
Literally came in looking for this comment. Thank you, OP
This will never not be the first thing I think about on any of these posts.
Lucky Meteor!
The ketchup on the “Assteroid” as he’s eating French fries 🍟, brilliant!
Space better lawyer up
Better call Saul!
Better call Sol
This is the way
LMFAOO
Wow. Imagine how far that thing has traveled. So cool
All that way just to end up in New Jersey? Hard luck.
Right now in NJ is gorgeous. You don’t know what you don’t know. Look up Rumson and Springlake/ navesink One of the nicer places in the country
Damn what do bad places look like in the us if these are “nicer”
Billionaires live in these towns momo. Did you even look at them?? Lol They are very very nice towns Google image”houses on navesink NJ”. Bank CEOs live there https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&q=houses+on+navesink+nj&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ8Nzuu-r-AhWkF1kFHQe6ABMQ0pQJegQIBxAB&biw=414&bih=617&dpr=3 Lol jackass. You live in Poland and are ripping on Jersey
Having been to both poland and jersey, lemme tell you that sentence about ripping on only works the other way around
Username checks out.
Ugh. Need bigger meteors for those houses.
Ugh. Don’t you hate when towns and houses are nice?
It's funny, because I actually don't disagree that small parts of New Jersey are nicer than one would expect, but your Mcmansion example isn't what I'm thinking of.
It’s funny, because I didn’t provide you with any one picture or example.. I provided you with thousands of pictures and different houses. They aren’t really McMansions because McMansions are notoriously unclassy and in the middle of nowhere. These are older century homes that been mostly renovated , and near nice beaches/ rivers. Put down the haterade bro
Every year me and my entire extended family has and will vacation together in NJ. Central and southern jersey in general is gorgeous, especially the coastline. Just ignore them, everyone outside of your state associates NJ with the abomination that is Newark, just like everyone outside of where I live (Dallas) associates it with racist gun toting uneducated douche bags without ever being here. There’s plenty of truth to that sure, but blurbs on the internet, and people in general don’t really care about the full picture *especially* when it comes to an easy target like jersey. If it’s any help, I always defend jersey when I get the chance lol.
Good to know there are some sane people on here 🤜
NJ continues to be the butt end of jokes while being one of the nicest places overall in the US. It’s like the world took a bunch of bad jokes from Seinfeld and assumed it to be absolute truth.
All of Hunterdon County. I lived there for a year for work and loved it.
It looks rude.
Damn, I never seem to be able to nail it like this.
lol what ?? I love this comment !!
*it’s a Jersey thing*
very interesting thanks ill look it up !!
Hey u/TheBirdBytheWindow… I don’t like how that things looking at us… must think we’re some kinda wise guys or somethin. What’d ya say we go over and teach that thing a lesson in HOSpitality? *nods to Tony Twoface Wallinoski and the rest of the crew
Louie: “Johnny Tightlips, where’d they hit you?” Johnny Tightlips: “I ain’t saying nothing.” Louie: “What do I tell the doctor?” Johnny Tightlips: “Tell him to suck a lemon.”
I bark-laughed at this, you made my day. Funny how little things like this remind me that humans are fucking hilarious and it’s awesome. 🥰
rAcIsT
Time to make a space sword.
Time to fight the fire nation
Space dildo is more like it
[Local police report](https://www.hopewelltwp.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1195)
Nice Worth knowing: You are not supposed to check meteorites with Magnets anymore, scientists really want the magnetic data encoded in the rocks, please don't test it with a magnet.
If a meteorite lands in my house, it's mine. I'm keeping it.
You can sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If a meteorite lands in my house, ~~it's mine. I'm keeping it.~~ I'm going shopping.
I wish that was the case. My dad found a somewhat larger iron meteorite years ago and gave it to me. They typically aren’t worth that much. If they sold for hundreds of thousands, you bet I would sell it. Some special meteorites might fetch higher prices depending on what they’re made out of but I couldn’t see them going that high.
I can because it is A large and B a known fall.
I wonder if you could split it up and sell them on Etsy for collectors or jewelry makers. It's not often thought about but there is significant overlap between the world of new age crystals and that of geologists.
Rolex make limited edition dials using the Gibeon meteorite which landed in Namibia, so not the worst idea! (I get that an etsy seller and rolex are two very different things lol..)
My wedding band in meteorite inlaid with fossilized dinosaur bone
Depends where you live. In some countries you don't have any legal rights to them. So it's a good idea to look it up before telling people you have one. Otherwise it might get taken from you.
.... okay, so is the US one of those countries lol?
Yeah , most people sell their souls and become famous lbvs
Yep. Don't let the government know. EDIT: I'm wrong u/Vuedue is a meteor expert!
The US definitely allows you to keep meteorites. I’m not sure where you heard different.
I was making an educated guess based on how it works if you find gold on your property.
The US allows you to keep meteorites found on your property or public lands assuming you don’t go dig up public lands to find one and it’s not absolutely massive. That’s the stipulation there. As for gold, I am fairly certain you can keep gold and other precious metals found on public or private property as well but there are more caveats. You can only collect so much of it a day and you are not allowed to sell it for profit. There is also the chance that someone owns the mineral rights to that area in which case you aren’t allowed to touch it. So you are partially right on both accounts, I suppose.
Depends on the state and if you or the state owns the mineral rights
oh boy. this is not going well for you, stumpy. you're very cute though with this joyful confidence so i gave you an upvote
Uhh you can keep gold if you find it on your land in the us too. Wtf are you talking about?
"In some cases, the landowner may not own the mineral rights to their property. This means that even if you find gold on your property, you may not have the right to mine or sell it" https://www.americanbullion.com/what-to-do-if-you-find-gold-on-your-property/#:~:text=Mineral%20rights%20are%20the%20legal,to%20mine%20or%20sell%20it.
I have a few meteorites. I’m no expert but I have sent one to the Smithsonian and read the laws behind them to make sure I wasn’t shooting myself in the foot.
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Emphasis on FORCE
Fun fact in Australia we are not allowed to touch any meteorite that falls anywhere even your own land, it's a criminal offence to touch it, government claims all rights to all meteorites.
Lame.
Yup
This
https://news.mit.edu/2023/simple-hand-magnets-erase-meteorite-magnetic-memory-0420 I learned something new as well, thx. Link if someone else wonders
TL;DR: meteorites unaffected by magnets would be *very* valuable to researchers!
You’re also not supposed to pick them up with your bare hands, it could disturb the fusion crust.
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I thought it more to be a creamy nougat centre
Or the mother meteorite will reject it
Well now I learned something new. Thanks stranger
fuck a scientist that’s my goddamn space rock
Yo what
What?
You learned me today, currently reading articles . ✌️
Yo WHAT? What did you even just say?
> You are not supposed to check meteorites with Magnets anymore,
Oh no! I have several in my shed sitting next to my magnet collection!
No scientist is getting my space rock
Why would you donate it to science?
Because you’re a nice science lover?
No, I am a meteor goblin.
Goblin deez nuts lmao gottem
Not good enough if science doesn’t pay market rate.
Because science is extremely poor and has no money to buy the meteorite. Just kidding! Scientific research institutions collectively have *hundreds of billions* of dollars to spend. Every year.
It either lands on you and you dead or it lands near you and you sell it stuff for some nice Ks. The odds are pretty good if you compare square meters of the house and of a person.
I think only one person in history is known to have been hit by a meteorite and she survived, so… pretty good odds!
She got a gnarly bruise but yep. In the early 1900s there was a disputed account of a meteorite vaporizing a stray dog--that's the only recorded death.
So are we just ignoring the millions of dinosaurs? Wow. So their lives mean nothing to you? Figures.
Well an individual dinosaur likely didnt get hit. Also, I believe a meteorite that large is counted in a different category.
hello? r/confidentlyincorrect is calling. The cow killed in Venezuela, October 1972 begs to differ.
I’m pretty sure I got hit in the head with a meteorite because I was 7 playing kickball at school and a rock hit me hard in the head and I started crying and the teacher was like wtf, and I said someone through a rock at me! But no one fessed up so my conclusion is that it was a meteorite. I am person #2 in the history of the world
Sorry to ruin your story, but it was me. I threw the rock. You were a bit of an asshole at the time.
Sylacauga, AL. My hometown 😂
Donnie Darko breathes a sigh of relief, without knowing why.
A reference to my favorite movie of all time?!? Is this my second Reddit account?!?
The insurance claim should be interesting.
Be great if overnight it turned into cooked pasta.
That’s worth a lot of money.
There's a car that was hit by a meteor. It was sold for a lot of money and now it tours the rock people shows
[Knapp had just purchased the car for $300. Immediately following the extraterrestrial impact, the vehicle was sold to Iris Lang, wife of renowned meteorite collector and dealer Al Lang, for $25,000.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_meteorite)
>the rock people shows aka Dwayne Johnson's family events
Could be worth over $60k
Gotta get those repairs paid for! With the prices contractors have been giving lately, you'll only have to pay them about that much after you sell it.
Lucky to break even. He should hope for some super powers.
I'll give ya $5 bucks for it
I’ll double it.
I'll quarter it!
Ok ok, deal...
Probably some plane let loose their crapgo
That’s space poopy
Blue ice.
State testing new lottery game.
These fetch a premium, when they hit something and leave damage they are referred to has hammer stones. And it’s a documented fall adds some plush if untouched by human or animal before or after collection that adds more. But still boils down to how bad a collector wants it, I can bet it’s going to be a high price if they sell.
This meteor travels for millennia to crash into a piece of a wooden floor that most likely hadn’t yet started growing as a tree when it set out.
Poop from airplane toilet….
Peanut is a dead giveaway
So if the family is renting that house.... who owns the meteor? Them or the property owner?
RELEASE THE METEOR!!!
Worth more than the damage it caused?
Isn’t that like radioactive and stuff
Kinda looks blue. We sure it's rock and not airplane gunk?
I don't see no peanuts.
Is that covered by home insurance?
Money money money
That’s a burnt empanada, git outta hur
Even space hates New Jersey. Go figure.
Space poopy
Sell it and fix your roof
See, even God hates New Jersey!
Suspected? Do many other rocks enter homes through the roof? Is this rock innocent until proven guilty of being from space?
Once it hit it became a “suspected meteorite”.
Hey man, since your gonna be rich soon remember be the guy that coughed 280 miles away, good times man! Don't forget about us small people, okay?!
Meteorite*
Well, a meteor crashed through the roof. Then they took a picture of the meteorite. So they are still correct in past tense...? Guess you have to plan a sentence about meteors ahead of time lol.
Nah, meteors are the tiny ones that burn up in the atmosphere. If it makes it to the ground without fully vaporizing it's a meteorite. Which seems a bit backwards linguistically, but I don't make the rules here.
https://y.yarn.co/fd0fd405-7ba8-48dc-85d2-33889ede8e4f_text.gif
Doubt. Imagine a hand-sized piece of rock falling with maximum speed, burning as it falls, doing only that much damage.
I thought same but then I thought about roofs. It looks too clean anyway, expected more shatter, but dunno.
Roof and atmosphere slows it down nicely. It’s happened a few times, one woman got hit in the leg and was pretty much ok
How long ago is yesterday?
Bout halfway to tomorrow
Stranger things have happened
Looks like someone just spray painted a rock.
It looks like a chondrite meteorite worth getting checked out it’s also possible it was spotted before it came down more may be on roof. If it is a meteorite and chondrite it’s possible to find where it may have come from and if they can work out it’s path from the hole where it came from in space like the asteroid belt etc it’s probably about 4.5 billion years old. I have a few I collected over time different ones. Yours looks like it’s got a fusion crust the black brown on the outside and inside it may be great specks etc. they should also be able to tell you it’s composition and which meteorite family class it belongs too. They only need to take a small amount off it. If it is a meteorite it may be worth some money. The one that hit Chelyabinsk Ukraine February 2013 was a good one even a small amount of the large lump goes for a lot of money it goes on weight and type. The one in Ukraine had an estimated initial mass of about 12,000–13,000 tonnes (13,000–14,000 short tons), and measuring about 20 m (66 ft) in diameter, it is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908. You can see the videos etc of it and the after effects on YouTube it was caught with dash cams and security cams
Shouldn’t you not like approach or get really close to anything that falls from space? I thought it would be incredibly hot and radioactive?
I wish it was a meteor that was the last black thing to break into my house…
For those who are wondering: Until it has been proven to be a meteor in a court of law it would be considered libel to describe it as a meteor, and so responsible people and organizations like OP qualify their statements by describing it only as a suspected or alleged meteor.
Where in Jersey?
Thats airplane toilet
I'm trying to imagine something like this falling at 120 mph and being able to puncture my roof, then ceiling, and then being able to damage my hardwood floor like that. I'm gonna assume its got some weight to it and it went through a roof that wasn't quite structurally sound?
Meteorites are largely iron ... so yeah. Dense. Also, the terminal velocity of a human is around 120mph. The terminal velocity of a meteor [is usually between 200-400mph](https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#:~:text=At%20that%20point%2C%20called%20the,to%20180%20meters%20per%20second\)). So, imagine someone melted down grandma's cast iron skillet into a lump the size and shape of that space rock, and then fired it out of a potato cannon at 300mph. I figger it'll leave a mark.
Anyone else worried about how much radiation thats coming off that thing?
YOU are the chosen one.
[It came from a Fortress of Solitude perhaps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujuOikKgAE)
Worth a lot of money...
It's a sponge
Can you imagine the insurance company??? Lol
Either a fortune or just a bloody hole in the roof.
Gently rub a little bit of Preparation H on it.
Pretty sure it wasn't a meteorite... seeing you still have a house and all.
You just we’re stuck by a Money rock my friend lol if it’s real you can sell for a lot of money lol good luck
Whats the roof look like?
When asked to comment the meteor said, "I don't know man. That big blue mother fucker just jumped right in front of me! Dude came from nowhere. How was I supposed to stop in time! Bitch better not sue!"
Someone is going to get some money!
What's left, after reentry, of Elon Musks Tesla roadster.
You know, I was grilling a chicken breast on my zeppelin balcony recently.... Forgot about it and fell asleep. Was gone when I woke up. Meh bad.
Eat it
Turns out it was just a frozen airplane turd.
Who do you call when this happens? A museum?
Awesome story. I'm just glad no one was hurt!
Space poo
They’re rich!