Equilibrated Odriterdinary Chon?

obieblue

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I found this rock it has a reddish orange fusion crust (possibly) and made up of tinny (white) circle dots, very dry and it sounds similar to a fire brick when I put its pieces back together. it was very hard to break into pieces and even though it is white in color when I filed a piece it left a light brown dust on a steal filer. I poured vinegar on rock and there was no reaction I mean no fizzing or foaming, it just rolled right off and did not soak into rock either.

Does it look like a equilibrated odriterdinary chondrite meteorite to anyone who reads this thread? It also has shock rings within the interior.
 

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Welcome to Tnet.

It looks nothing like an ordinary chondrite to me... nor any other kind of meteorite. Shock rings are not a usual feature of meteorites either. Shock features are more usually vein-like, following the weakest structural areas of the lithology and also usually apparent through to the surface as well as in the interior. I'm also not seeing anything that resembles a fusion crust, weathered or otherwise.

You haven't said whether it has any attraction to a magnet. A carbonaceous chondrite might not (although it's clearly not carbonaceous) but even low metal ordinary chondrites will exhibit weak attraction. If it's completely non-magnetic then it won't be an ordinary chondrite, and is much less likely to be any kind of meteorite... although magnetic attraction is not a confirmatory test since many terrestrial rocks exhibit some degree of magnetic properties.
 

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obieblue

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here are better images, the only metal if there appear as tinny little shiny spect's and it would have a very low iron nickel metal ratio if it is a meteorite because it doesn't seem to attack to a magnet
the red images are the exterior and the grey and white images are the interior.
 

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The nickel content of the metal in meteorites is typically around 20% and doesn’t exceed about 30% in chondrites. Most of the rest will be iron, with a few percent of other metals.

If you can see grains, flecks, or veins of native metal in a specimen but there is no attraction to a magnet then it isn’t a meteorite. There are no exceptions to that rule.
 

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