[meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite

Sat Mar 3 10:00:59 EST 2012

Jason, List,

After reading some more I've determined it's probably not a volcanic 
bomb.

Quote from Wikipedia;  "Because volcanic bombs cool after they leave 
the volcano, they do not have grains making them extrusive igneous 
rocks."

This rock has grains and inclusions and does not appear to be volcanic.

Sincerely,
Larry Atkins

IMCA # 1941
Ebay alienrockfarm

-----Original Message-----
From: jason utas <jasonutas at gmail.com>
To: Larry Atkins <thetoprok at aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 10:21 pm
Subject: Fwd: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jason utas <jasonutas at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
To: Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

Hello Larry, All,
It looks like a volcanic bomb.  Larry noted that it was found amongst 
other volcanic rocks, and the outside does appear to exhibit "flow 
lines" - I'd bet on its being volcanic.  If it is one, it's one of the 
better examples I've seen from the southwest.  

https://www.google.com/search?q=volcanic+bomb&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FIZRT9GuHIbUiAKVpOW0Bg&ved=0CDUQsAQ&biw=1169&bih=614

A number of look-alikes visible in the above link.
Regards,
Jason

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Richard Montgomery 
<rickmont at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Ah!  Dino eggs!!!
> -Richard M
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Dunklee" 
<steve.dunklee at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteoritemike at gmail.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; 
"Larry
> Atkins" <thetoprok at aol.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:39 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
>
>
>> 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.co
m>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> IMCA # 1941
>>> Ebay alienrockfarm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----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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