Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: Got an email earlier today from an 83-year-old local farmer who wants me to take a ...

Got an email earlier today from an 83-year-old local farmer who wants me to take a look at a rock that might be a meteorite that his family dug out of a hole in the ground in Manitoba in the 1880s.

Kind of tempted to just send him this helpful xkcd meteorite identification flowchart: https://xkcd.com/1723/

But I want conservative farmers to have a favourable opinion of scientists, so I'll send him info on how to get it identified instead :)