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The Cannon Falls resident discovered an oddly shaped and extremely heavy rock - what he later found out was a rare mesosiderite meteorite - in 1962 in Emery, S.D., while doing farm work.
The then-10-year-old Plucker knew the extremely dense rock was unique, but had no way of researching his find.
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Cannon Falls man discovers (same) meteorite, again

Skunk Hollow resident Larry Plucker is a fairly down-to-earth guy, except for maybe once every fifty years or so when he has what could be called cosmic experiences.
Plucker, who runs an appliance repair business, grew up on a farm near Emery, South Dakota. When he was just a kid, back in 1962, he pulled a somewhat different looking rock out of a rock pile on the farm.
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