[meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010

[Galactic Stone & Ironworks]

BTW - if anyone has a link to any meteorite in the shape of a
perfectly flanged button, iron or stony, please send me the link or
photo.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 5/8/10, Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Manmade stuff ends up in weird places.  I stand by my assessment until
> I see a chemical analysis and verdict from a respectable authority on
> meteorites. ;)
>
> BTW - I know plenty about metal detectors and have spent years
> wandering the wilds.  I've run across some odd stuff out in the middle
> of nowhere in places where there were no traces of human activity.  So
> the location has nothing to do with whether it's a meteorite or not.
> I guess a cannonball found in the Franconia strewnfield must be a
> meteorite because it was found in a known meteorite strewnfield.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> On 5/8/10, Erik Fisler <erikfwebb at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's a Franconia Iron.  When you've been out in the field and walked two
>> and
>> a half miles into some inhospitable desert and you can only find them
>> within
>> the strewn field then you know...  I have plenty of dumb bells and funky
>> "U"
>> shaped irons but most of them are flat and corn flake looking because
>> they
>> pealed out of the second or third break up of the meteorite and did not
>> have
>> enough time to orient.  They don't get very big because most of them were
>> only the size of peas or smaller when they peeled out of the meteorites
>> in
>> flight.
>>
>> It's easy to sit in your rolly chair and say meteor wrong.  I suggest you
>> spend 50 hours learning to properly use a quality metal detector and then
>> walk two miles from the rail road tracks(as a crow flies lol)  and stay
>> out
>> there for 12 hours to get your head right.  Then tell me the stuff you
>> found
>> was man made LMAO!!!
>>
>> MANMADE!!! MANMADE!!! hahahaha
>>
>> [Erik]
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:11:42 -0400
>>> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
>>> To: joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com
>>> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day -
>>> May	8, 2010
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Flanged buttons of this type are limited to tektites, which undergo a
>>> vastly different formation process than meteorites.  There are no
>>> meteorite flanged buttons, or if there is, I have not seen in during
>>> my experience of handling thousands of meteorites and seeing photos of
>>> tens of thousands of meteorites.  Nor I have ever read anything in the
>>> scientific literature that allows for meteorite flanged buttons of
>>> this type.
>>>
>>> This is either a meteorwrong, or a million-dollar find of the century
>>> - I'd bet on the former.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> MikeG
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/8/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Why would you even think that's a  meteorite? I think Darren called it.
>>>> It's a snap fastener.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Phil Whitmer
>>>>
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