What would you do if a 240-kg iron rock older than the Earth landed outside your house?

While you ponder the many exciting possibilities, Replicad engineer Jaap Termeer has created a superrealistic digital twin of the meteorite. Such a scanning scenario is uncommon, even for 3D professionals. So when Hessink Fine Art Auctioneers commissioned a high-resolution 3D scan for documenting the meteorite and creating a 3D-printed replica, Termeer became a part of a fascinating digitization story.

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