[meteorite-list] Mars Connection to Seaton Beach 'Find'

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:56:21 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>> 
>> Sounds like BS to me.  A shiny, metallic Martian?
>
>The article didn't say it was metallic.  Shergottites
>tend to have a glossy fusion crust.  But I'm a skeptic
>until I see confirmation from a reputable laboratory.

Looking back over the article, no, it didn't directly say "this rock was
metallic", but I assumed from the article that the metal-detector enthusist that
found it, later consulting other metal-detector enthusists, had found it using a
metal detector.