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context: Can you imagine finding a decent sized black shape, frozen in the ice, in Antarctica. Just has horror movie written all over it. Edit: correct place >
  
  We're damn lucky they weren't in the arctic this time then! :D >
  
  What is this, an arctic for ants? >
  
  This comment will never get the upvotes it deserves, but know that you have done well, u/Ilwrath. Your ancestors smile upon your deed. >
  
  Is this a wingless fly joke? >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A daring team of scientists has endured the inhospitable conditions of the icy desert of Antarctica to recover five new meteorites, including a near-17-pound monster space rock.
  The team of scientists included Field Museum and the University of Chicago researcher Maria Valdes, who estimated that of the 45,000 meteorites recovered to date from the icy wasteland of Antarctica, only 100 or so have been as large as the largest member of this new haul, which weighs 16.7 pounds.
  With such frigid conditions even in the midst of summer, Antarctica may seem like an unlikely place for anyone to choose to visit, yet for meteorite hunters like this team, this frigid vista offers unique opportunities.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: meteorite^#1 Antarctica^#2 team^#3 rock^#4 new^#5 >
  
  Space rocks >
  
  Did I hear a Rock and Stone? >
  
  That's it lads! Rock and Stone! >
  
  We're rich! >
  
  Mushroom! >
  
  Specifically the area where Antarctica is icy >
  
  Equatorial Antarctica is much warmer, what do you know! >
  
  Yeah but it's inside the earth and run by space nazis >
  
  ya know, if the title hadn't've told me, I never would've known Antarctica was "icy." >
  
  Maybe they're just futureproofing their article >
  
  Just be sure to bring flamethrowers in case of shape-shifting alien >
  
  Who had Venom released from space rock found in Antarctica for their 2023 bingo sheet? >
  
  I had The Thing, does it still count? >
  
  I had Cloverfield Monster. Pretty close. >
  
  Aliens vs Predator? >
  
  just like in tomb raider 3 >
  
  You guys ever see The Thing? >
  
  That's about 7 kilograms, for anyone not still living in the 19th century. >
  
  No one uses kilograms unless they’re weighing out drugs. >
  
  19th century with drugs. >
  
  Couldn’t imagine a 19th century without em’! >
  
  I’m a real light sleeper Chiles! >
  
  Send in David Duchovny and some college students. They'll handle this. >
  
  Piece of the iron core of Tiamat. Staggers me that the Babylonians had a story a planet (Tiamat) being destroyed by collision with an interstellar object and there is a planet’s worth of material in the asteroid belt but we are like nah… totally normal left over matter from the formation of the solar system. Lots of gold and other rare metals up there waiting for the asteroid mining era of human civilization. 
  this has been your weird, unrelated Reddit comment, please enjoy your weekend >
  
  The current leading theory for the origin of the moon is that it was created by a collision between the Earth and another planet, so astronomers aren't blind to the idea of ancient planet-planet collisions.
  As for the asteroid belt, the problem is that there just isn't very much stuff there, and what is there is pretty varied, which suggests that it didn't all come from a single source:
  
  There is far too little mass in the belt to constitute a planet, and the marked chemical differences between individual asteroids strongly suggest that the asteroids could not all have originated in a single planet. Instead, astronomers believe that the strong gravitational field of Jupiter continuously disturbs the motions of these chunks of primitive matter, nudging and pulling at them, thereby prohibiting them from aggregating into a planet.
  
  (Source) >
  
  Yeah, but people 3,000 years ago had a story. >
  
  They also had a story about advanced beings who landed in space ships and created liquid pools which they would occupy while they communicated these people. A pretty weirdly specific story. Better than a talking bush or geocentric creator IMHO. >
  
  Don’t show it on r/meteorites or will b classified as non-meteorite lol >
  
  Do they have an app like Not Hotdog over there, except for meteorites? >
  
  I'd be more interested if they'd found 30,000 pounds of bananas there. >
  
  That's a lot of bananas >
  
  
  a near-17-pound monster space rock.
  
  Got excited until I realised I misread the last word. Anyhoo, back to browsing Bad Dragon >
  
  Why would a meteorite in Antarctica be any more interesting than one found elsewhere? It's from space >
  
  Less contamination >
  
  Why include the word "icy" in the title? >
  
  In case the article is still around in 50 years >
  
  Icy Antarctica? As opposed to fiery Antarctica? >
  
  I wonder what it is made of. >
  
  They never look the way I think they should. They just look like rocks. >
  
  “I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.” - MacReady >
  
  "..happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?" - Palmer >
  
  Wow. Depending on quality, this could be valued around $38,000 >
  
  Really? Anyone wanna team up and nab the next spacerock before the "science nerds" get to it? >
  
  There's a storm hitting us in about 6 hours. We're going to find out who's who. >
  
  Rubbish. This is clearly fake.
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  No  scientist worth a grain of salt uses pounds.