[meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite

[Steve Dunklee]

Take a look at this.
http://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/07/dinosaur-eggs.html
cheers
Steve

--- On Fri, 3/2/12, Larry Atkins <thetoprok at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Larry Atkins <thetohttp://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/07/dinosaur-eggs.htmlprok@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
> To: meteoritemike at gmail.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:08 PM
> Hi Mike, List,
> 
> I'd like to see inside but but I've not yet windowed it. I'm
> in no 
> hurry to damage it, just in case it's special. I can say
> that in hand 
> you can see there are small chondrule like features and
> chunks of 
> darker rock. There are also some dark, metallic looking
> things. The 
> pictures do it no justice. The thing that cast's doubt in my
> mind is 
> the fact that there is no attraction whatsoever to the super
> magnet.
> 
> It's probably petrified fruit or a dino egg, or a
> concretion, or any 
> one of the other things people have suggested. The odds of
> it being a 
> rare meteorite are infinitely small, this I'm well aware
> of.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Larry Atkins
>  
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
> To: Paul Gessler <cetuspa at shaw.ca>
> Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 11:53 am
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
> 
> 
> Wow, Paul has a valid point. That is definitely not a
> meteorite, but
> it could be something very interesting nonetheless. :)
> 
> Are you going to window it?
> 
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> On 3/2/12, Paul Gessler <cetuspa at shaw.ca>
> wrote:
> > Larry:
> >
> > I don’t think that is a meteorite. But the “flow”
> lines looked 
> puzzling
> > until I remembered my experience with finding
> fossilized fruits
> > on the Queen Charlotte Islands in BC. Canada
> >
> > I think it is a fossilized fruit of some sort.
> >
> > Spinifructus antiquus
> >
> > take a look here: sort of like a fig
> >
> > 
> http://www.plantworlds.com/images/800px-Spinifructus_antiquus_fruits_01[1].jpg
> >
> > Still a cool find.
> >
> > Paul Gessler
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Atkins
> >
> >
> >
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