Are these METEORITES?

[JMC]

pretty sure some are...

 

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[JMC]

Please post your comments

 

[JMC]

Found in UK

 

[flyadive]

The rocks in the bucket could be?
They look too porous to be meteorites.
I don't think they are, you could take them to a university or museum and have someone look at them. Also there are a number of Internet sites that would examine your specimens !
Good luck
HH

 

[JMC]

 

[JMC]

Found with Metal Detector

 

[Terry Soloman]

No they are NOT meteorites. They look like basalt rocks.

 

[supertraq]

slag

 

[LuckyLarry]

Terry is right, they don't (look) like meteorites and they DO (look) like basalt. Are they magnetic?

 

[JMC]

Yes, all magnetic

 

[LuckyLarry]

Both basalt AND meteorites can have strong magnetic properties. It may well have some hematite in it if it went through earth's pyroplastic ordeal. It could be be pyroplastic, but it's obviously not sedimentary rock. Meteorites are normally rather dense and heavy compared to metamorphic rocks. Softer than iron materials would have disintegrated upon entry and never would have gotten here in the first place. Earth's minerals melted in a volcano get nowhere near as hot as ones that blast through the atmosphere.

Try this: Scratch it against a hard surface, like hard tile or similar;

Black=(possibly) magnetite
Red=(possibly) hematite
Yellow-brown= (possibly) limonite

Or, take it to your local college and have it ID'd free.

 

[TerryC]

Meteorites don't have "holes". They are not porous. TTC

 

[LuckyLarry]

Some do have some craters, but holes? Nope, not exactly.. All these are meteorites, and the small reddish-colored one is hematite, and yours look (somewhat) like it, but none of yours have holes either, just craters, like these. Right now though, I am almost convinced that you have found some "irons" (meteorites).

 

[TerryC]

Lucky, one of your pics is one of JMC's. For comparison, no doubt. Also, did you add the "one inch cube" notation above the cube? Scientific notation would require that cube to be universally accepted as a one cm cube. Just a hiccup on your part... or the picture source should be suspect. Anyway, his DOES look like the iron pictured. Time for the iron/nickle acid test. TTC

 

[LuckyLarry]

Yes Terry, that is true about them being the same sample. No, I didn't make the notation, but like most things on the net, most of everything is suspect anyway, including the 6:00 "news." And yes, the tests can easily be done in a lab at any college or university. I am still suspicious about the one small sample though; is it, or is it not a meteorite? My money's on irons now though, mostly because of something I noticed later on, the rocks have a bit of a shimmer or shine to them on the lands but not the pits, indicating hardness which would enable them to be more easily polished - as they seemingly are to some degree.

 

[TerryC]

Tnx for the response. All that aside, if you've been following any of my other posts for meteorites, then you know I have found none myself, except dozens of MICROmeteorites. I have actually found a stony mm among the dirt sifted. I sent a macro pic of the TINY stony to Robert Haag (the original Meteorite Man) who confirmed the rock as extra-terrestrial. Then he sent an autographed book to me as TERI (ouch!) I don't fault him... his wife is a Teri. I'll probably spend a week soon, back in AZ's Gold Basin till I find one large enough to display. That would be nice. Tnx agn. TTC

 

[JMC]

Can you get olivine (Fukang) meteorites fall in England!?

 

[Terry Soloman]

You can find any type of meteorite anywhere on earth. The odds of finding one is the real question. Your odds increase in a known strewnfield in a location that has no vegitation and is dry. In England, you need to get VERY lucky.

 

[JMC]

found 3-4 will post pictures soon

 

[supertraq]

Cheapest metal detector that will find most all meteorites,except stony achondrites is the tesoro compadre and you will need to adjust the ground pot to be a little positive..It the pot in the center when cover is opened up.It then will find stony iron and pallasites as good as my supertraq..This is for anyone that does not have a desert nearby as meteorites are evrywhere not just deserts.

p.s any metal detector will find irons but i've only found one iron out of hundreds of stony iron/pallasites.