🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help Identify - Is this a Meteorite?

[Lilwelder]

Found in Hayden, Colorado at an excavation company's yard. Could've been brought back to our yard from Arizona as well because we've worked around the western US (mostly Co and AZ) since 1944.

Not magnetic.
Does not leave a mark on white paper.
Very light weight for its size.
One side looks to have been molten.

 

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[Dougie Webb]

Does it register as metal at all on the detector?

 

[RTR]

It looks interesting

 

[Lilwelder]

Does it register as metal at all on the detector?

Does it register as metal at all on the detector?

Good thought. We haven't tried it yet. We'll try it when we go home for lunch.

 

[Lilwelder]

Does it register as metal at all on the detector?

No, there was no tone.

 

[Dougie Webb]

No, there was no tone.

Even stony meteorites tend to have some metal in them. Iron meteorites are of course not only metallic but also very dense. I’ve found several meteor-wrongs over the past few years, and have done a bunch of research, so I’m about 99% that is not a meteorite….

 

[AU Seeker]

Most all meteorites are attracted to magnet, also meteorites are usually heavier for their size, not lightweight for their size.

Also I think I see little bits of quartz in your rock, hard to say for sure as your photos get blurry when I enlarge them, meteorites never have quartz in them.

That all being said I see nothing about your rock that looks like any meteorite I have seen.

 

[Lilwelder]

Thanks everyone!