[meteorite-list] New Zealand: more 'meteorites' on their shelves....

[Aubrey Whymark]

Looks exactly like a marcasite/pyrite nodule.  We get loads from the Cretaceous Lower Chalk in Southern England that look identical.  They are also regularly confused with meteorites.
 
Aubrey

Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
Every odd rock in New Zealand now starts to be a meteorite it seems. Here's
the newest:

http://times-age.co.nz/news2004/040616b.html

No likely meteorite if I look at this picture. Markasite nodule perhaps?

- Marco

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