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Possible meteorite?:shrug:

Pyledriver

Pyledriver

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I was digging through some junk in my 'neat stuff' collection and ran across a small stone that I always thought was a meteorite. It's fairly small, black and crusty looking, and rings out at 30 on my Xterra. I'll get a pic shortly but does this sound like a possible meteorite?
 
PyleDriver,
Hey, there are a few real good sites online with info on identifying meteorites. A lot of them will refer back to university laboratories for analysis. You will likely find that a lot of meteorites are just magnetic rocks.

The best thing I saw to ID a meteorite is flow lines inside of the fracture facets (i think that is what they are called). You will need a 7 to 10 power eye loupe to see them. Imagine the rock surface getting so hot it pops off little surface flakes then gets so hot the surface melts a little and generates flow lines from the trip through the atmosphere.

The real bummer is that most finds are just rocks, but for the lucky few, WOOHOO.

If you can find an impact crater anywhere near to where you found the "rock" in question then that increases your odds a bit. Seems some of the labs want that kind of info.

Man I hope what you have is for real. That would be so cool even just for bragging rights. An hour or two of online study will tell you what to look for and give you a real good idea of what you have.

I will be going out to a friends farm to check out an "impact crater" in the next few weeks. My daughter is going too, I think it will be cool to even be able to say we were meteorite hunting especially for her (she is 10). How many kids can say they went on a meteorite hunt.

Google: meteorite identification then go to the aerolite.org site.
let us know how you make out.

GOOD LUCK
Jeff
 
Thanks for the info! I did put a magnet to it and it didn't attract... Probably not a meteorite I'm guessing. I'll look at that other stuff just in case it could be still be one though. Now that I have my 705, I'd like to learn more and go find (or at least look) some near me. The closest that I know of was the fall that happened near West a few months back. I did see where Mr. Meteorite even came down for a visit!
 
some of the most valubale meteorites have no iron content

DON'T GIVE UP
JEFF
 
Hi Pyledriver, and also TURNMASTER what do you think this is? I also have a potential meteorite ID. With a potential meteorite find by accident while swinging with my metal detector, out in a grassy bush area while looking for gold or whatever shows up.

Can I please have a visual assessment by anyone of this small rock? I found it with my metal detector sounding off loudly, in a very isolated bush area almost totally free of any previous humans. Up on high and dry ground, away from any waterways like creeks or ponds. Have not been back there yet to see if there is more as it is in a bush area. I want to go back soon.

In C&J Mode it shows up on the TID number as -6 on my Minelab X-Terra 70(I also have a Musketeer Advantage) and sticks to a magnet very strongly and the outside part is pealing away due to me handling it after. Once the outside is pealed off the inside is a completely different texture than the outside.

It streaks black-gray color on the back of a clay tile. It gouged out this piece of unglazed ceramic tile at first with no color then with softer strokes it came up as black/dark gray, just like light colored pencil lead. I think it is a meteorite but I am not sure?

The first picture is one side of it and the next 2 pictures is the other side when it is turned over which is pealing off.
 
http://www.aerolite.org/found-a-meteorite.htm

Take your rock sample and scrape it against the coarse (unglazed) face of a white bathroom tile, just like you were drawing on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. If your rock leaves a reddish or rust-colored streak on the tile it is likely hematite. If it leaves a dark gray streak it is likely magnetite. Iron meteorites will generally leave NO STREAK, or possibly a very faint grayish mark.

DOES IT MEET THE OTHER CRITERIA ON THE AEROLITE PAGE.

Man I am with you I want to find a meteorite bad, they are (I have read) more rare than precious stones. If you can get them onto public display for a time and hold onto the documentation it increases their value (SIGNIFICANTLY I have read). The-non metallic meteorites are more valuable (and more rare). I believe some metallic meteorites have no iron content, but do contain nickle and/or chromium. I DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THIS FOR A FACT. I am nothing more than a layman in any subject other than machining.

We are all capable of doing some independent study and gaining some basic knowledge on any subject. That is a beautiful thing.

KEEP LOOKING, NEVER GIVE UP
JEFF
 
Have the ability to tell for sure and all else is speculation. Indeed very valuable if you find the right type and have heard of larger ones being very valuable...
 
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