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Diamonds are (almost) forever

Apr 17, 2018 2:37PM PDT

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Gold meteor
Apr 17, 2018 4:23PM PDT

Sadly it would burn up during re-entry being a soft metal and the typical iron-nickel ones do that and they are harder metal. Of course, it might help our atmosphere like the NIbiru ancient "sky gods" of Sumeria who wanted it for that purpose on Planet X.

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I love history
Apr 17, 2018 8:46PM PDT

And those Sumerians were some cool dudes - though pretty fierce, too (as they had to be!).

I saw an article that supposed that just maybe Niburu was what is now the Vela supernova remnant - the dates are approx. right, anyhow. Whatever.

Some stony/iron types *do* survive to landing - I remember seeing a nice chunk in a natural history museum, weighed several hundred tons, lots of nickel/iron, though most as you say are vaporized.

Rick