chondrite fragment?

rockpassion · Dec 10, 2025

is this a chondrite fragment?

Red-Coat · Dec 10, 2025

When will the message get through that most meteorites cannot be identified from pictures alone... unless there are obvious meteoritic features?

I don't see any such features here.

rockpassion · Dec 10, 2025

Red-Coat said:
When will the message get through that most meteorites cannot be identified from pictures alone... unless there are obvious meteoritic features?

I don't see any such features here.

How many NWA weathered chondrites are being sold with similair features and yet people buy them. And i bet you know very well what a weathered chondrite looks like when you hunt in arizona. And i am sorry that you overlook the black melt in my specimen. But i think the meteorite people don´t want you to find a meteorite. Anyway pointles to post on this forum i have noticed that so i won´t post anymore at your amusement.

Red-Coat · Dec 10, 2025

rockpassion said:
How many NWA weathered chondrites are being sold with similair features and yet people buy them. And i bet you know very well what a weathered chondrite looks like when you hunt in arizona. And i am sorry that you overlook the black melt in my specimen. But i think the meteorite people don´t want you to find a meteorite. Anyway pointles to post on this forum i have noticed that so i won´t post anymore at your amusement.

What a very sad response.

Most of the 'weathered NWA chondrites' are what they claim to be with varying degrees of supporting evidence. Those from reputable dealers are often from known strewnfields in the vicinity of the Algerian border or have other supporting evidence. Fakes (or rather misrepresentations) are also being sold, but most of them are claiming to be nickel-irons rather than chondrites.

Of course I know what a weathered chondrite typically looks like... but I also know how many terrestrial rocks can have a similar appearance. What you refer to as 'black melt' in your specimen is not an adequate diagnostic for a meteorite.

I firmly do not believe that 'the meteorite people' don't want you to find a meteorite. New finds are to be lauded, not suppressed.

Your posts do not so much amuse me as bemuse me. What is obvious is your desperation to find a meteorite. That's a quest in which I sincerely wish you the very best of luck - but it's not the case that every odd-looking rock which you're unable to immediately identify deserves consideration as a meteorite candidate if it displays no obvious characteristic features. Nor is it the case that rock specimens lacking common meteoritic composition must be from rare classes of meteorite as you have sometimes asserted.

Keep looking but be aware that, unless you are prepared to travel, your location is a limiting factor in terms of probability for meteorite finds.

rockpassion · Dec 10, 2025

Red-Coat said:
What a very sad response.

Most of the 'weathered NWA chondrites' are what they claim to be with varying degrees of supporting evidence. Those from reputable dealers are often from known strewnfields in the vicinity of the Algerian border or have other supporting evidence. Fakes (or rather misrepresentations) are also being sold, but most of them are claiming to be nickel-irons rather than chondrites.

Of course I know what a weathered chondrite typically looks like... but I also know how many terrestrial rocks can have a similar appearance. What you refer to as 'black melt' in your specimen is not an adequate diagnostic for a meteorite.

I firmly do not believe that 'the meteorite people' don't want you to find a meteorite. New finds are to be lauded, not suppressed.

Your posts do not so much amuse me as bemuse me. What is obvious is your desperation to find a meteorite. That's a quest in which I sincerely wish you the very best of luck - but it's not the case that every odd-looking rock which you're unable to immediately identify deserves consideration as a meteorite candidate if it displays no obvious characteristic features. Nor is it the case that rock specimens lacking common meteoritic composition must be from rare classes of meteorite as you have sometimes asserted.

Keep looking but be aware that, unless you are prepared to travel, your location is a limiting factor in terms of probability for meteorite finds.

I must say i like your reaction, and yes i am sort of addicted in finding a meteorite because i have been bitten by the meteorite virus as i was just 10 years old. Since been hunting for 40 years learning every local earth rock and every kind of meteorite that has ever been found . Love weird rocks. But oke, i want to ask you was is this feature/material in the main mass i have found. I has a smooth wavy surface and forms veins throughout the whole rock.

Red-Coat · Dec 10, 2025

rockpassion said:
I must say i like your reaction, and yes i am sort of addicted in finding a meteorite because i have been bitten by the meteorite virus as i was just 10 years old. Since been hunting for 40 years learning every local earth rock and every kind of meteorite that has ever been found . Love weird rocks. But oke, i want to ask you was is this feature/material in the main mass i have found. I has a smooth wavy surface and forms veins throughout the whole rock.

Thanks. When I don't know, I will say so, and in this case I don't know. But I see common igneous features, not something definitive for a meteorite.