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They vary in size from " 30 to 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly concentric grooves round the centre as if they were moulded. Inside the hard "shell" some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles charcoal... ... |
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| The Riddle of the Rotating Spheres - Stones baffle NASA Scientists (October 2003) |
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Stones, which are billions of years old and rotate on their axes, captured the attention of Mr. John Hund of Pietersburg fifteen years ago. Review previously published reports about Hund's journey to the Gestoptesfontein mine near Ottosdal in the Northern Province where he found a stone just like the one he read about and saw in the Klerksdorp museum. While playing with the stone on a very flat surface at a restaurant one day, Hund realised it was very well balanced. He took it to the California Space Institute at the University of California to have tests done to determine just how well balanced it was. "It turned out that the balance is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology and these are the guys who make gyrocompasses for NASA. The stone is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection," explains Hund. Nobody knows what these stones are. One NASA scientist told Hund that they do not have the technology to create anything as finely balanced as this. He said the only way that either nature or human technology could create something so finely balanced would be in zero gravity... |
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