Widmanstätten pattern

[Chuthulu]

Hello all, nice to meet you.
My question for you is this: Is this a Widmanstätten pattern and if so, is there anything else other then meteors that this phenomenon occurs in? If it isnt a Widmanstätten pattern, could you please educate me on the difference? Window made with grinder and sanded roughly with very low grit (I know, im sorry) I'll start brewing a pot of coffee now.

 

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[Kray Gelder]

No, I don't think it is. If you look at photos of iron/nickel meteorites, you will see NONE of them have bubble pockets, or cavities such as your example. The iron nickel meteorites are the former cores of celestial objects, where the material was compressed under enormous pressures where bubbles don't exist. These planets were destroyed, shattered, flinging this dense material into space.

 

[Chuthulu]

The "flakes" appear and disappear in regards to the rocks orientation to the available light, just quite strange to me and my amateur knowledge as all my research points to the Widmanstätten pattern/thomaon structures that are found in meteors. It truly has me stumped

 

[Terry Soloman]

Widmanstätten patterns, more correctly known as Thomson structures, are figures of long nickel-iron crystals, found in the octahedrite iron meteorites and some pallasites. My watch face is a slice of the Muonionalusta meteorite.

 

[twisttop]

Is it magnetic? I am new at this also. I have learned that not all Iron meteorites have Widmanstatten pattern. There are the Hexahedrites and the Ataxites that do not have the widmanstatten pattern. The Octahedrite Iron Meteorite has the Widmanstatten pattern. Could very well be one of those.

 

[Chuthulu]

Ok guys got some more info. Did a gravity test (density) multiple times, each time arrived at 2.21. Streak is black. Mettalic luster. Opaque. Fracture is imbalanced/random. Knife wont scratch it, non magnetic. I've cross referenced the gravity to everything between 2.1-2.3 and can safely say it is not even close to those. What have I found lmao.

 

[Chuthulu]

Also, it scratches glass.