Apparently a meteor struck a tree a couple of towns over, bounced and landed in some guy's yard, making a small (but noteworthy) crater, about a foot around and a few inches deep (scorch marks, mostly). The scientist that examined it said that it's about 4.5 billion years old, and the stuff 'stars and planets' are made of.

If he sells it, he could get $500K. Not bad, eh? =)

Just for a laugh, if I were him, I would have told my friends I found it in the yard, with my hand covered; when they looked at the rock, I would've pulled my hand out (which I would've covered with grape jelly or colored glycerine, the kind used for candles) and started screaming, running around, and yelling: "THE BLOB! I TOLD YOU IT LANDED! AND YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE MEEEEEEE!!!"

You guessed it, I need a life....lol

What would you do with a meteor in YOUR yard (assuming it didn't burn it down or cause a crater big enough to fill a football stadium in it)?

uhmm... i'd take the $500,000 for the fuckin' rock.

Cool. I want a meteor.

And sell it on EBay???? I fucking would!

Knowing my luck the fucker would burn on reentry, but hitting my house, setting it afire, and wrecking my stuff!!!

Miss the shit out of you, wb???

Me too...actually, I'd like to have a 'meteor field' and 'harvest' them...nice little cottage industry, don't you think? =)

I want a meteor, too . . . . If I had one, I'd break off little crumbly bits and turn it into jewelry of some kind for myself and other special people-- then sell the rest of it for an obscene amount of money.

hm.. 'd take the cash and move to another country incase my parents decide that it belongs to them since the rock landed in their yard...

who would buy it for 500k? oh well as long as there's a buyer i would definately sell it.

i would of been like wo!! am i to drunk or what!!?? as if it were to come flying in my back yard... i would go out the door... check out the meteor... then i would be thinking about the steven kings "creep show"
where that shit landed in his front yard... then he started day dreaming on what he would do with it...
so he emptied it out and poored the green ooz in the hole that the meteor hit...
then his house got govered in green grass and so did he... i would be thinking about that... if a meteor were to ever land in my
back yard...
:p

damn and all this time i didn't realize that i was gone...

hey, do you guys remember when that 747 evacuated it's shitter above some town and that frozen ball of shit crashed into some poor fuckers living room? that was great... i wonder if that's what landed by you, mets?

Nah; the meteor that landed here was most definately rock...it was about a foot or so long, and looked like a large piece of coal...

Duchess: Yep, I would too (make jewellry) but this was like a large black rock, so...I'd sell

Masochist: Some offers were up to $1 million dollars. Believe it?

Skinless: Yeah, but my Dad most likely would be at the bank before I knew what...ahem hit? lol

Shy: Loved that Stephen King story....

Shit bombs from God...


Welcome back.

*looks out of the window* for a meteor... when i find one...
i'll be sure to call you all

well then i'd auction it off or tender it to the highest bidder. i'd wait a little first so people had some time to get the money and try and bid as high as poss.
who would spend this money on a rock? is this mostly science organisations? any private/personal bids?

I'd wait too, but knowing my luck, EBay would be closed =)

The Scientific Community is offering the million dollar award, for 'research purposes.' I would imagine heading the charge would be NASA.

Wouldn't that be great, knowing you could fritter away your money on a space rock, and had plenty of money left???? Capitalism at its best

I'd like grind it up and sprinkle over my dinner. Then eat it... That way, I'd get like some bacteria in me from another planet, and I'd get superpowers or something. Maybe grow a second pair of arms or a third eye...or like creepy telepathic midget dude attached to my stomach that says, "Open yooooooooour mind!.... Open yoooooooooour mind!.... Open yoooooooour mind!"

Now that would like be really cool... Or hey! Maybe even a third testicle! I don't know what I'd do with a third nut, but... Hey, I could like use it to show off and make money in major porn mags and stuff.

nah, you don't want three nuts. a friend of ours has three nuts and all he gets is made fun of... go with the transsexual midget or whatever you said.

If they'd buy half of it, I'd just have it cut in half and have the cross-section polished, like a geode, and unload the other half for a tidy sum. That way I have something to display on my new desk, in my new office, in my new house...

"But pa, It itches sumthin' feirce! It's worse then the time I had poison Ivy!"

"Don't do it Billy! Can't you see; Water is what it Wants!"

Have you seen the movie “ Joe Dirt “ ….

I'd move far and away from Wyoming with my love and take all his friends with us.