[meteorite-list] New to list. My first meteorwrong or meteorite??

jacob morse gs70350 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 12:19:17 EDT 2007


I posted my pictures on photobucket at the advice of one of you.  Thanks for
the interest guys, i know its probably a meteorwrong but its fun to hope and
dream sometimes!

Here is the site i made.  Thanks for the tip on photobucket too!


http://s179.photobucket.com/albums/w301/GS70350/


On 4/7/07, ken newton <magellon at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi Jacob,
> I would like to see the photos.
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
> jacob morse wrote:
>
> Hello to everyone.  I have become very excited about this hobby and
> research field after picking up what i believe to be an iron meteorite while
> looking for arrowheads as a hobby.  Ive looked down at the ground for all my
> life and have found and analyzed many unique rocks and minerals, not to
> mention my artifact collection.  This one struck my eye as something
> unique.  When my wife asked me what it was, i told her slag, but after
> looking at it closely it didnt resemble any slag id ever seen.  After
> looking at it with a magnifying glass, i saw crystalization all along a
> fusion like crust with flow lines and indications of extreme temperature
> that were on two sides of the rock.  Around it it appeared to have fractured
> off of another rock of the same sort once impacting the ground.
>
> I hit the rock several times with a hammer and fractured it, broke off a
> chunk, and looked inside.  It is an amazing spectacle of shiny metal with
> blue and green inclusions.  solid and dense.  specific gravity is 6.87.
>
> Had a metal castings analyst run it through a spectrometer and he notified
> us that is is 6% nickel, 70% iron, and 9% chromium.  He didnt have the exact
> numbers, as he had already shipped it back to me, but he insured it as he
> thought it could very well be a meteorite.
>
> If someone wants to upload pictures, email me and ill send you a few.
> What should I do now?
>
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