[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

[dfpens at comcast.net]

I sent 4 pictures to Jason Utas who will post them at photobucket.com and send the link to the Met list.

Thanks Jason for your help.  

Please check out the photos when the link is provided and tell me what you all think.

I know it's not a meteorite but what can it be??

Dave

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From: dfpens at comcast.net
> 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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