Meteor Or What The Heck Is It? :shrug:

[Critterhunter]

It's roughly twice the size of a softball in width at least. I was hunting deep in the woods with the Sovereign a year or so ago and came across it just laying on the forest floor. There were no other rocks around anywhere in that entire patch of woods I was detecting. I originally left it there and the next day it kept bothering me that perhaps it might have been a meteor, so I went for a hike to find it again and it look me a while to locate it. I was about to give up when I came across it.

I think I remember sweeping it with my detector and it produced no signal or null if I remember right. I know one way to check for meteors is to see if a high performance magnet sticks to it. I tried and it won't.

The only thing that made me suspect it might be a meteor is that it looks melted. There are no roads or paths anywhere near where I found it so my first thought of a glob of blacktop seems unlikely. What do you guys think it could be?

 

[PowerDetecting]

could it be a chunk of asphalt

 

[Aarong81]

Looks like Obsidian to me. Its glass that has melted and flowed within a volcano.
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/minerals/pix/obsidian2.jpg http://www.tektites.co.uk/resources/Obsidian4.JPG
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/426/426,1322068745,38/stock-photo-volcanic-glass-rock-black-obsidian-isolated-on-white-with-room-for-your-text-89426965.jpg
obsidian source URL
This picture shows what it will look like if you knapp a piece off of it. It could have several colors in it or just solid black. Indians used obsidian to make stone arrow points and axes.
http://www.freestockfor.us/wp-content/main/2011_08/DSC_0769.jpg

 

[ojm bc]

Looks manmade? did yo heat it up to test if melts, very interesting all the same...any volcanic activity it could of come from?

Just heat up a needle and see if will sink into material..if does not go in likely you have something or other?

 

[Dodqe]

Looks more like asphalt than obsidian to me... But I dunno. Why would there be a chunk of asphalt in the middle of the woods? Unless it got caught in the frame of a quad or something... Odd. How much does it weigh?

 

[Critterhunter]

Thanks for all the input thus far. Tomorrow I'll weigh it for you guys and also heat up a nail and see if it'll go into it. If it does then I'm guessing asphault I would think, but I just can't figure how that thing would have been carried way out into the middle of the woods. The idea of a quad getting it stuck under the frame I guess could be a possibilities. I'll try to post another picture too with something in the picture for scale on it too.