I found this small rusty very heavy mass of well I have no idea. wondering if it's a meteorite or not just don't know how to tell it is very heavy and magnetic also it was found in the clay layer about 2 feet below the overburden I was dredging last week. I found this in some hard pack material that has not been disturbed by the normal annual floods. Any help would be appreciated very much I got a couple pics albeit poor ones it looks as though it's been charred by heat it's about the diameter of a quarter and seems to have some other glass like specs in it also that catch the light. I would like to clean it up but if it is a meteorite would this devalue it? please chime in all you meteor nuts thanks Bill
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Another possibility, is it could have originally come form a "contact zone", later eroded, where it was covered over by a volcanic or pyroclastic flow. Extreme heat of the flow can effectivly melt metals that were in contact with the flow.
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Well that picture is not blurry, but even zooming in I can't tell much, other than your fingernails look nice and tidy, and those are some nice pretty flowers, and you do have some brown spots in your lawn!!LOL
Hahahhaha !!! yes the lawn has some patches and is on village property I don't maintain that the wife's responsible for the flowers and that's my going to church manicure LOL but I just can't seem to get a good closeup from my $100 camera for some reason.
Ted Tupitza > Bill V. (flourchild)June 12, 2010 at 3:59pm
Come on Bill, that's just a wad of gum with someones steel filling inside. Shouldn't you be out dredging instead of chasing for used gum??? You scrape that off from under a table at Applebees??? LOL.
Your pictures are a little fuzzy, so it just looks like a rock to me.
You can grind a "window" to see if it has any metallic specks and or chondrules, all meteorite have one or the other or both unless they are pure iron/nickel it this is the case it will look like pure metal, it will not decrease the value by grinding the "window".
Here are a few links to maybe help you determine if it is a meteorite.
Thanks Skip nice links and from what I've read and from the window I've ground it would appear to be a Millbillillie (Eucrite achondrite) meteorite or iron slag as it has characteristics of both LOL. Yes this Meteor ID thing is going to be tougher than I thought the funny thing about it is I can't seem to get a clear pic of it. I have taken pics of flour gold with the same camera (Kodak 10 mega pix digital) and they come out fine but every pic of this funny little heavy rock came out blurry??? Also the room the rock was left in the clock nearby lost an hour last night??? Now I know by research that they are not radioactive so I'm a bit confused on this one as to what the heck's going on??. Again thanks Skip for the very informative links I will now take it to someone who has first hand experience with them here local and will post my results. I still think it looks like slag but where it was found there has never been a iron factory in fact not withing 60 miles of this location also no trains ever ran through there only farm land and glacial hills Hmmm could this be a Canadian Meteorite???
Here is another pic after I took a slice small slice from it. It smelled like gunpowder after it's been burned when I cut it hope this one comes out clearer and you can zoom in on this one.
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Wanna go to Contrary Creek this week???
Your pictures are a little fuzzy, so it just looks like a rock to me.
You can grind a "window" to see if it has any metallic specks and or chondrules, all meteorite have one or the other or both unless they are pure iron/nickel it this is the case it will look like pure metal, it will not decrease the value by grinding the "window".
Here are a few links to maybe help you determine if it is a meteorite.
http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/ident/index.html
http://meteorites.pdx.edu/meteoriteid.htm
http://www.star-bits.com/ID.htm
http://www.aerolite.org/found-a-meteorite.htm
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