If I’m not mistaken, the take-away from this story is, ‘oooh look, the Russians cant even lift 1200 lbs off a lake floor.’
The earth is mundane?
That there’s a really big space peanut!
“........ which landed in Arizona 50,000 years ago, and broke the scales when it was weighed earlier today.”
I didn’t know the Arizona object was ever recovered and now I see it was weighed today.
Thanks for the language lessons.
I got the impression that the writer considered a lifeless rock from space as more exciting than the rock from space that we are living on. The writer (or translator) was apparently using a precise word rather than making a value judgement.
Thanks again.