Photo: Siobhan Motherway Source: Museum Victoria
Here at the Discovery Centre, we receive all sorts of finds from all sorts of people. A 9 year old beachcomber finds a "shark tooth" which turns out to be millions of years old, for example. Today, an enquirer came in with this fine specimen he found with his metal detector, in suburban Melbourne. It certainly is heavy, with a metallic cast. It warms to the touch and has an intriguing scalloped surface. Of course, our visitor would like to know if his find is of extra- or terrestrial origin!
Photo: Siobhan Motherway Source: Museum Victoria
Looking at it through the eye of one of our Discovery Centre magnifying lenses yields little more information, so off to the Senior Collection Manager of Mineralogy it goes!
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