[meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls

[Jerry Flaherty]

Chris I beg to differ with you as personal experience during a very active 
Persid shower in the late 80's or early 90's produced a sterling[S] quantity 
of particles which jumped from beneath the water to a magnet and lent 
themselves to a magnificent show under a hand lens.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls


>> Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
>> plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
>> from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
>> and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
>> dust on the bottom of the pool...
>
> Have you actually done this? Because the sort of micron-scale dust 
> produced by meteors has an atmospheric lifetime measured in months. While 
> there's certainly meteor dust falling all the time, you won't find any in 
> the morning from the previous night's shower.
>
> Chris
>
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> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Mike Groetz" <mpg444 at yahoo.com>; "Meteorite List" 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls
>
>
>> Hi, Mike, List,
>>
>>    The Seller believes this material to be "Jurassic"
>> in origin because he finds it in sand produced from
>> Jurassic strata, but while he's wrong about that, he
>> may be right about it being meteoritic!
>>
>>    When a meteorite ablates in the atmosphere, the
>> majority of its mass is turned into a dust of tiny fused
>> droplets. Eventually, that meteoritic dust will fall to
>> earth; some will land on water, sink to the stream and
>> lake bottoms and become incorporated in the sand
>> (or mud).
>>
>>    Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
>> plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
>> from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
>> and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
>> dust on the bottom of the pool, that could well be
>> interpreted as:
>>    "Meteorite balls, glass balls, zircons, garnet, magnetite
>> and some other minerals... The balls are magnetite balls.
>> Somethimes with the white transparents glass balls you
>> can find some green balls that look like moldavite or
>> olivina fused samples..."
>>
>>    Much more fun to collect your own than to
>> buy it on eBay, though.
>>
>>
>> Sterling K. Webb
>
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