Cannonball or meteorite?...

[Bavaria Mike]

My Grandfather gave me this while visiting the family in Ohio this past summer. He said he thought it was a meteorite, found it with several others and several other smaller balls. He was hunting on a hillside close to a river in Tuscarawas county Ohio, about 5 miles North of Schoenbrunn. A dozer had been working in the area and exposed the balls. He only grabbed one because he had four rabbits and the weight was a bit much for a man in his 70s, he

 

[Bugar In. USA]

Here's my, meteorite / tektite, it was found in the rocky mts, in N. Mexico, Miami university,museum / lab had it for 2 yrs and never could tell the actual origin or what, when they analyzed it, said was from unknown planet, as you can see just like pure iron under the glaze, sets off detector just like pure iron too , weighs 5 1/2 oz.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

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[-=john=-LexKy]

Hallo Mike!

you have a very interesting object there to a geologist like me. It is not a meteorite and most likely isn't a cannonball. There were stone cannonballs used in China and other places a long time ago. More recently something like stone might have been used more by necessity instead of as a modern practice.

It really looks like you either have something man made from Indiana oolitic limestone (like in the movie Breaking Away) or most likely a chert concretion that is nearly a perfect sphere. Having found a group of them of varying sizes could be easily explained with the chert hypothesis. If I could look at the specimen in more detail then I would understand better.

Try some simple tests. If you can't easily scratch it with a steel nail then it's probably chert (made of Silicon Dioxide) If it scratches easily it's likely limestone. Try a little vinegar on a spot. If there is no reaction it's not limestone.

hh

-=john=-

just type Coinstrike

 

[OldeTymer]

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[Bavaria Mike]

Thanks John, I'll give it a try! HH, Mike

 

[Jackpine Savage]

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[BuckeyeBrad]

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[Anonymous]

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