[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

[G. Nicula]

Hi Dave, do you know how deep this object was buried?

George Nicula

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Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics


>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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