Is this a metorite

[colt]

I was detecting and came accross this little guy, at first I thought it was a hot rocks, but it jumped on to my super magnet when I ran it accross it. It is very heavy for it's size, I don't know anything about metorites, any info would be appreciated.

colt

 

[DonM]

I can't answer your question but I am willing to bet that this guy can:

http://www.meteoriteman.com/

 

[azdigger]

things to try to see if it is or might be one.
does it feel heavy for its size?
does a magnet stick to it??
does it what color does it streak on the inside of your toilet tank top?????
And the best way is to show it to someone that would know.....

 

[Uncle Willy]

Looks like it could be one. They usually contain a lot of nickle.

Bill

 

[colt]

I have had a lot of PM's and did a little search on the net and from what I can gather it could be a piece of a metorite. I allways thought metorite chuncks would be larger. I stuck a couple of these little one in my pouch, I will have to go back to the area that I found them and look for their big brother.

colt

 

[flint]

Actually, that is pretty big for a meteorite, though there have been quite a few of the humongous ones... keep in mind that the majority of meteorites that enter the earth's atmosphere are about the size of a pinhead, and thus burn up in the earth's atmosphere long before ever getting close to the ground.

The meteor showers we experience this month (the Perseids) are almost exclusively sand-grain sized meteorites.

If that is indeed a meteorite, then that would be quite a find... I think it would be cool to find something that's travelled millions of miles and probably spent millions of years trapped in the blackness of space.

 

[huffy]

I think I found one and threw in back into the water,I am going to look for it again because I looked at pictures on the computer and it looks like it.It probably fell onto the ice and the ice floated to shore and when the ice melted it fell in the water,I will let you know "if" I can find it again,it was about the size of a orange but was real heavy,about 2 pounds,there is no hot rocks in the area and it looks exactly like the meteorite picture I found on a web-site so it's worth a week-end hunting trip for it.According to some web-sites they can be worth lots of $,even if it not worth much it's still kool to have a real meteorite,might be a hot rock but if I don't find it it will bug forever.

 

[huffy]

I think I found one and threw in back into the water,I am going to look for it again because I looked at pictures on the computer and it looks like it.It probably fell onto the ice and the ice floated to shore and when the ice melted it fell in the water,I will let you know "if" I can find it again,it was about the size of a orange but was real heavy,about 2 pounds,there is no hot rocks in the area and it looks exactly like the meteorite picture I found on a web-site so it's worth a week-end hunting trip for it.According to some web-sites they can be worth lots of $,even if it not worth much it's still kool to have a real meteorite,might be a hot rock but if I don't find it it will bug forever..