Very rare find! Martian?

[andrewarena]

Found bushwalking, stood out like dogs ba**s. Clear fresh rind/crust, little thumb prints with early rust spots on surface.
Passes steak test, magnetically moderate too low. No quartz found.
The interior has a modern stone bench top look under 0.5mm magnification. Peppered with a mildly olivine too diamond looking crystal scattering within a white fine cement like matrix.
((P.s whitenesed landing fire ball with no sound 3 weeks earlier, been searching within co ordnante landing site area. I live in a subtropical climate) coincedence most obviously))

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[andrewarena]

Any thoughts? I can upload more pics, I Own a l6 chrondrite and 30 gram Caynan dipablo iron,
This stone I’m showing is impossible for this area, The natural stones commonly found here are hematite/magnetite ore shale and sandstone conglomerates? Is this stone familiar to anyone here? Please?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Terrestrial.

 

[andrewarena]

Terrestrial.

It’s real and rare. But better to be conservative than make to many wrong calls.
I really just got lucky, I asked what terrestrial rock it looked like with the photos alone and they said an olivine bomb. (Logically safe call)
But don’t throw away all self called meteorongs use your gut feeling and just store them for professional testing one day, you may be very surprised!

 

[Terry Soloman]

May I ask who verified your specimen?

 

[andrewarena]

Ross Pogson, senior mineralogist of the Australian museum (sydney)

 

[andrewarena]

And as I said, he only performed a nickel test then confirming it IS a chrondrule free meteorite which he picked from his eye before that anyway. with a 50/50 chance of being a type of planetary basalt object, I turned down chipping off a few grams for Friday testing, as I’d rather bring back the whole specimen on Monday so they can carry out the final test while I’m there.

 

[chub]

Im no expert but it looks fairly convincing. Terry what makes you think its terrestrial? Are you in Qld Andrew? I think us Aussies are the only one who calls it Bushwalking...

Chub

 

[Mine Shaft]

What do u mean little "Thumb Prints" ?

 

[Art_Blade]

Sorry but rock surface doesn't look like a meteorite. It's shiny and I couldn't find streamlets on surface. If I can suggest, try to cut it and show cross section. We will see...

 

[ali1]

Sorry .. this is not a meteor! There is a layer of yellow color between the base stone and the crust of combustion .. There are 3 layers on the surface .. This is usually not in the meteorites .. Must be only two layers .. Stone layer and a layer of burning of the same stone .. For any reason this piece fell From the sky .. But it fell from inside the atmosphere and not from outside .. I may be wrong, but my analysis was to see him in pictures .. And pictures deception mostly .. Greetings to you.

 

[Lonewanderer]

Sorry but rock surface doesn't look like a meteorite. It's shiny and I couldn't find streamlets on surface. If I can suggest, try to cut it and show cross section. We will see...

Typically achondrites have a “shiny” fusion crust.

 

[Rookster]

 

[Charl]

Typically achondrites have a “shiny” fusion crust.

Yep.

 

[Vladimir bvm]

On the first photo there are interesting colors, I have a stone with similar shades when light is refracted.

 

[Art_Blade]

It looks like a basalt. Shape and inside is typical.

 

[Clay Diggins]

And as I said, he only performed a nickel test then confirming it IS a chrondrule free meteorite which he picked from his eye before that anyway. with a 50/50 chance of being a type of planetary basalt object, I turned down chipping off a few grams for Friday testing, as I’d rather bring back the whole specimen on Monday so they can carry out the final test while I’m there.

So how did that test turn out?

 

[Michelle S]

I have one that looks very close to that one. I'm trying to recall the correct I.d. bc I kinda thought the same thing about mine yrs ago. Can I ask you if the "olivine crystals" are dark yellow to orange in tint? I will locate mine to compare in a few If you would like.

 

[Michelle S]

 

[Art_Blade]

Your findings are looking like flints