[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

[Jason Utas]

Hello All,
Dave sent me the pics of the item in question - here they are:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/meteoriteorwrong.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/find-2.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/find-3.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f306/JUtas/find-4.jpg


Looks curious enough - I'm pretty sure that no cannonball ever weighed close
to 110 lbs.
However, the shape, the shape...it appears to be man made to me, but I just
don't see any real use for such a ball of iron.
Analysis!
Regards,
Jason


On 9/26/06, dfpens at comcast.net <dfpens at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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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