[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

dfpens at comcast.net dfpens at comcast.net
Tue Sep 26 12:15:16 EDT 2006


I would like to show a picture of what a friend of a friend thinks might be a meteorite but I know we are not permitted attachments in our emails to the list.  Any ideas of how I can post a few pictures?

The object which this person dug up (on a 20 acre rural plot in Illinois) is very round, 9 1/4 inch in diameter and weighs 110 lbs.  That's pretty much the density of iron, 7.87 g/cc or 492 lb/ft3.  It's surface is rusted, but it is nearly perfectly round.  The rusted surface gives the impression of thumbprints but it is simply rusted.  I think it's a cannonball but am not certain that old cannonballs were this size and weighed 110 lbs.

I filed off a chink to do a nickel test but so far haven't the right chemicals to do one.   

Any ideas?

Dave



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