Iridium from witness fall location Ny

[RadRockee]

Very harmful to touch



Meteorite also attached (Non toxic) Definitely thinking this is iridium or something or the sort very strange can give burns to the touch does not oxide.

 

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[Jason in Enid]

thats not a meteorite and its definitely not iridium. First, your rock is sedimentary, second, iridium isnt radioactive.

 

[RadRockee]

There is no way that is a normal rock I have collected rocks for about 20 years in the same are of the witness fall and no other rocks come close/match. My question is how can something fall from space and not be radioactive with quasars, black-holes exploding planets and so much more harmful reactions going on every second! I'm thinking the government is lying about what is a meteorite and what it not.

 

[RadRockee]

It cant be radioactive all my animals die of old age not of radioactivity my dog lived till 18 and died in his sleep of natural causes if it were radioactive I think we would all know.

 

[Jason in Enid]

There is no way that is a normal rock I have collected rocks for about 20 years in the same are of the witness fall and no other rocks come close/match. My question is how can something fall from space and not be radioactive with quasars, black-holes exploding planets and so much more harmful reactions going on every second! I'm thinking the government is lying about what is a meteorite and what it not.

and with that bit of nonsense, another goes onto the ignore list!

 

[galenrog]

Get a few guidebooks. Visit a few museums that have meteorite collections, and ask questions while you are there.

Niether rock you show is a meteorite. The light colored is sedimentary. The dark has the appearance of a small chunk of asphalt, but may be a darker type of cementation.

Iridium is NOT radioactive!

Time for more coffee.

 

[Charl]

There is no way that is a normal rock I have collected rocks for about 20 years in the same are of the witness fall and no other rocks come close/match. My question is how can something fall from space and not be radioactive with quasars, black-holes exploding planets and so much more harmful reactions going on every second! I'm thinking the government is lying about what is a meteorite and what it not.

No offense really intended here, but it truly sounds like you are more involved with conspiracy thinking, rather then understanding the first thing about meteorites. And, BTW, the government is not who brings us knowledge regarding meteorites. That is the domain of planetary geologists, meteoriticists. Science, in other words. Not government. Believe it or not, there are people who actually know more then you do. So when you say "I'm thinking", no, you're really not thinking at all. At least not rational thought.

 

[RadRockee]

This kinda looks like a magnetic field. Ah wrong rock sorry mate! Still harmful.

 

[chub]

Why are the burns on the back of your hands?

Chub

 

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[RadRockee]

It burns your skin.

 

[Capt Nemo]

It's probably an alkali burn from lime in/on the rock.

If you got that from radiation, you're going to be dead in a week.

Half life for the most stable isotope of iridium is 241 years. All the other isotopes of iridium are rated in days, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. I seriously doubt you have any iridium other than a trace amount, and not enough to cause any radiation burn.

Hmmm....Alkali/radiation burn....Might be cesium. You might have a chunk of a satellite reactor and one hell of a mess on your hands!!!