Is this iron ore or a possible meteorite??

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Probably iron ore. Can tell nothing from the images provided except a relatively rough texture. How about some clear, in focus images.

Time for more coffee.
 

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Try streaking it on the unglazed back of a ceramic tile if you have something left over from a tiling job. You need to blow away any dust and examine the colour of the streak itself. Hematite streaks red-brown; limonite and goethite streak yellow-brown; pyrite streaks black or greenish black; magnetite streaks black or grey; siderite streaks white. Iron ores are often a mixture of one or more of those minerals but usually one of them will predominate and determine the colour. Only magnetite is strongly magnetic. The others may be weakly so if magnetite is present as an accessory mineral (not unusual).

A meteorite (unlikely) may or may not be magnetic but will at most give you a weak, dirty streak or nothing at all.
 

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