Possible Meteorite? Anyone ever seen this before?

[XGPX0001]

New to your forums, I have been working with local universities, they helped me cut it.

Everyone is blown away, it shows 100% meteor qualities, but yet it has layers, also an octagon then a perfect sphere core.. What the heck is this thing, no natural earth rocks would be this shiney if iron, they would be rusted. Super ass heavy, magnetic, everything but then it has layers.. Its sure not smelted, found in he middle of nowhere in a dry river gravel bed. Pretty sure no smelting could cause layers and a core...

 

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[galenrog]

I do not see a widmanstatten pattern. Also, the layering is not something found in any meteorite I have ever seen. Another strike against meteorite is the gas pockets and other small voids in the object. I would have to say terrestrial, rather than extraterrestrial.

I’ve seen something structurally similar, but can not remember where or what material.

Past time for more coffee.

 

[XGPX0001]

I have to acid etch it with nitric acid to show that wind pattern. You can't buy the acid since 9/11

 

[Ryano]

Looks like slag from a furnace or smelting operation. Any steel mills in your area ?

 

[Eu_citzen]

I have to acid etch it with nitric acid to show that wind pattern. You can't buy the acid since 9/11

Muratic acid (HCl) also works I believe. Have you considered a streak test?

 

[Rific]

galen makes a good point about the voids. I havent seen an iron meteorite with voids like that. You could also check the % of nickel in the object

 

[XGPX0001]

Streak test was performed by geology professor, nada. HCl is not strong enough, it just eats the crust/rust and makes a deep yellow color. If I just swab the mirrored part with HCl nickel turns pink yes?

 

[XGPX0001]

Looks like slag from a furnace or smelting operation. Any steel mills in your area ?

No, nowhere NEAR. Was found literally in the middle of nowhere in a dry gravel bed from where the river lowered. Way too heavy to have flowed or followed with the current.

If it was smelted how could that explain a perfect sphere center then a hexagon then layers with pockets. It's literally like a planet almost with layers and a core then a center core.

It has to be natural, a smelted civil war cannon ball or something would be a whole slag then maybe bubbles? No way this could have been manufactured or rolled like this in an 1900's- metalsmith shop or steel mill. This is like the size of a baseball.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Streak test was performed by geology professor, nada. HCl is not strong enough, it just eats the crust/rust and makes a deep yellow color. If I just swab the mirrored part with HCl nickel turns pink yes?

What, no streak?? Yellow HCl can indicate iron, among other. Note "indicate".
Not sure on Nickel.

If blackish streak I'd guessed a magnetite-rich concretion/nodule. That would explain the "layers" and the magnetism.

Since you took it to a geology professor, what did he have to say?

 

[Kray Gelder]

Since you have been working with local universities, and geology professors, what are their conclusions? Are they clueless? You have now moved on to us armchair geologists ( no disrespect to you actual geologists on TNet )?

 

[Charl]

It is a fact that very few geologists are equipped, through study or experience, to identify meteorites. One might think they would be, and a few are, but the fact is geologists study the Earth, not extraterrestrial samples from elsewhere in the solar system. The specialists you want to show are planetary geologists, whose specialty is material not from Earth. I've collected meteorites for 35 years, and IMHO, that does not appear to be a meteorite....

 

[hvacker]

Where do you live that you can't buy nitric acid? It's available in the US.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Nitric acid $25 Litre plus shipping anywhere in U.S.

 

[PennyG]

What’s the metallic looking liquid in pic #6? Is it from the rock?

 

[ProspectingForStone]

What’s the metallic looking liquid in pic #6? Is it from the rock?

Looks to my eye here like a solid, in the shape of some sort of mixing ladle, or spoon. Quite a wide spoon surface there, so I don't imagine it is for eating breakfast cereal, looks to me to be a mixing utensil.

No meteorite expert here. I've not found one yet myself.

So apologies but no thoughts here as to the identity of your find/ object.

Posting to indicate I do not feel the metallic object in upper left corner of photo six is from the rock.

 

[PennyG]

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/realities.htm

 

[Caleb12]

It's platinum

 

[Caleb12]

Platinum in its purit forms in layers much like diamonds do from such intense heat it was create under which gives it its ability to resist oxidizing along with the pressure which gives it its strength.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Platinum in its purit forms in layers much like diamonds do from such intense heat it was create under which gives it its ability to resist oxidizing along with the pressure which gives it its strength.

Platinum is an element, not a mineral. It was created in a nuclear reaction when a sun exploded. It was not "created" like a diamond is. Platinum is not found in a pure form in nature.

From the information provided by the original poster it appears it could be a weathered magnetite nodule. Not rare. Not a meteorite.

 

[Caleb12]

I believe it's platinum. this is similar I found on the net. The pic is of platinum.