iron meteorite fragment??

[rockpassion]

i have dug up this piece of metal 1 meter deep. it has no sand stuck to it. is it a iron meteorite fragment?

 

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[Red-Coat]

It has no obvious features to suggest it's meteoritic. I assume you have confirmed it to be attracted to a magnet. If the attraction is very strong, it's likely to be something man-made. It might be a piece of shrapnel.

 

[rockpassion]

It has no obvious features to suggest it's meteoritic. I assume you have confirmed it to be attracted to a magnet. If the attraction is very strong, it's likely to be something man-made. It might be a piece of shrapnel.

what is the difference between a iron meteorite scrapnell and manmade scrapnell??

 

[robertk]

what is the difference between a iron meteorite scrapnell and manmade scrapnell??

One is a man made object made from refined iron and/or other metals. The other is a naturally occurring space rock fragment that contains elemental iron.

 

[rockpassion]

One is a man made object made from refined iron and/or other metals. The other is a naturally occurring space rock fragment that contains elemental iron.

yes i understand that. but how can you tell the diffence just by by looking at the scrapnell pieces side by side see eample of sitkote aline scrapnell.

 

[Red-Coat]

The Sikhote-Alin piece you're showing exhibits flow lines as melt features from its atmospheric passage. Your chunk of whatever has no such features. It just looks broke/fractured.

You didn't answer the question about its degree of attraction to a magnet.

 

[rockpassion]

The Sikhote-Alin piece you're showing exhibits flow lines as melt features from its atmospheric passage. Your chunk of whatever has no such features. It just looks broke/fractured.

You didn't answer the question about its degree of attraction to a magnet.

it is strongly atracting a magnet, and after looking with my 10x loupe i can see what look like crystal faces or lighter colored angular metal crystal plains. by the way both photo i posted as example are meteorite from the webb

 

[Red-Coat]

it is strongly atracting a magnet, and after looking with my 10x loupe i can see what look like crystal faces or lighter colored angular metal crystal plains. by the way both photo i posted as example are meteorite from the webb

The second of those two pictures is a Canyon Diablo meteorite specimen. It doesn't exhibit flow lines, but does exhibit some aerodynamic sculpting.

I can only comment on what I can see, but your chunk exhibits neither of those kinds of features.

If you think you can see kamacite/taenite crystallisation, window the specimen and see if it has a Widmanstatten pattern. I provided details on how to proceed on a previous thread here:

2 meteorites?

2 meteorites? roughly 5cm in diameter each . Extremely magnetic found in the desert Saudi Arabia, both are positive to the nickel test. Both are have a strong metallic shine when cut. Very dense. One of the meteorites looks like it has olivine veins in it. Are these meteorites and if so...

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[rockpassion]

The second of those two pictures is a Canyon Diablo meteorite specimen. It doesn't exhibit flow lines, but does exhibit some aerodynamic sculpting.

I can only comment on what I can see, but your chunk exhibits neither of those kinds of features.

If you think you can see kamacite/taenite crystallisation, window the specimen and see if it has a Widmanstatten pattern. I provided details on how to proceed on a previous thread here:

2 meteorites?

2 meteorites? roughly 5cm in diameter each . Extremely magnetic found in the desert Saudi Arabia, both are positive to the nickel test. Both are have a strong metallic shine when cut. Very dense. One of the meteorites looks like it has olivine veins in it. Are these meteorites and if so...

www.treasurenet.com

the likelyhood that it is a meteorite is very small. only an xrf test will prove or disprove it. but thanks for the heads up.