[meteorite-list] How to do it your self

[Dana]

I am wondering how a person can learn to identify
mineral content of rocks?

I am always seeing olivine 49.2%, ect. and so forth.  

Are there any books I could buy or check out at my
library that would teach me to do this that you all
might recommend personally. 

I am sure the one rock I have is a meteorite wrong... 
but the feeling I had when I found it thinking that
maybe I finally had found one was really great.  So
now I am on a personal quest to find my own someday.  

I read lots of sites with info. on the net over the
past two years.  Many sites claim this slice is rare,
this one is that, so forth and so on.  After all my
reading I do not really feel any smarter, only more
confused about pricing and rarity, what is real and
what is not, but I did learn about caring for them
once I finally get one and how to spot a meteorite
wrong.  LOL  

Also, are there any groups that go meteorite hunting
together?  I would be very interested to do something
like that anywhere in the US or Canada.

Thank you for your time and input.  

Dana Hawn
on a Prairie
Illinois, USA


		
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