iron meteorites? Found near Willamette area

[organicsscience]

I've been doing a lt of research on meteorites after I found this. I can't rule it out and it really does seem to pass all the checklists. I've found a few more pieces from the same site. Here is just one picture for now

 

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[austin]

Picture?

 

[organicsscience]

Pictures

Thanks everyone for your help!

 

[organicsscience]

It was heavily rusted I wirebrushed it and wd40 it. I even have some pieces that look a little more stoney and even has what looks to be perfect fusion crust.

 

[AU Seeker]

You say it has passed all the checklists, but I don't see where you have filed a small "window" with a file to be able to see what the interior looks like.

Filing a "window" is acceptable to do and will not hurt the value if it is truly a meteorite.

It would also help if you post which of the "checklists" it has passed.

 

[AU Seeker]

It was heavily rusted I wirebrushed it and wd40 it. I even have some pieces that look a little more stoney and even has what looks to be perfect fusion crust.

While filing a window is acceptable to do, I have never heard that it is acceptable to wire brush and spray a meteorite with WD-40, if there was any fusion crust it would most likely be gone now.

 

[galenrog]

While I can not discount the possibility of the item being a meteorite, based solely on the images provided, I do have to ask, What checklist did you use, and where did you find the checklist? I ask because if this checklist of yours actually suggests wire brushes and WD-40, we need to know so we can tell people where they should not get their information.

 

[organicsscience]

Wire brushing was my bad idea I know, I used a soft brass brush but the wd40 I have read several places since its mostly iron helps preserve it. I did do the filing a window part. I tried to take a picture but didn't show up. I have read just about everything I can find online for the last month. Good news is after that first piece the other pieces I left alone, no wd0 or cleaning

 

[TheTh3rd]

Wire brushing was my bad idea I know, I used a soft brass brush but the wd40 I have read several places since its mostly iron helps preserve it. I did do the filing a window part. I tried to take a picture but didn't show up. I have read just about everything I can find online for the last month. Good news is after that first piece the other pieces I left alone, no wd0 or cleaning

I have found tons of those and I'm sorry but it's just a rock with a lot of iron. I have one in specific that's almost identical
To yours

 

[organicsscience]

It's like almost pure iron and If it was a rock from earth wouldn't you think it would have rusted away by now? You can even see the veins from what I read happens going through the atmosphere

 

[organicsscience]

 

[organicsscience]

 

[SorenCoins]

Hi, it is an interesting find and it looks really meteorite-like. I would try to get a saw or have someone who owns a good saw to cut it in half to reveal the inside.
If it is an Fe-Ni meteorite it will just look like metal. If it is a stony meteorite it should have flakes of Fe-Ni and chondrules, small circular magnesium silicate material. Then try to get some nitric acid, you may be able to get it from certain hardware stores, or you could buy it directly from a science supply store. Dip the end in if it appears to be an iron microscope and it should have etching marks of the Fe-Ni crystals.

 

[flyadive]

I think they are meteor wrongs.
You can send them out for identification. I did with similar irons I've found . Came back negative! I used Meteorite men from the TV show.There are numerous places you can send them. Search the web.

Are their any impact marks?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Is the Williamette area known for Iron deposits? If not have them verified and you might have some $ in the box, if not Iron is $125.00 a ton.

 

[Tuberale]

Found "in the Willamette area"? The Willamette meteorite did not strike where it was found. It came in on an iceberg. It probably fell in Montana or northern Idaho. The Bretz floods brought it to Oregon. There is no known meteorite strew field in this area. I'm wondering where these were actually found at. If they are eroded pieces of the original Willamette meteorite, I believe the Chinook tribe is entitled to them at the current time. The Willamette Meteorite was awarded to the Chinooks for historical purposes by the US Supreme Court.

 

[kcm]

One other concern I have is that a "brass" brush was used. Brass normally leaves discoloration behind if used on anything harder than itself That would tend to give the rock a different look than natural.

You could try a dremel tool with a diamond disc to grind a small area (in place of using a file). That would give much better results as we know nothing is going to withstand the diamond disc. Don't think I'd need to mention to not go crazy with it.

 

[galenrog]

If you really believe these are meteorites, please take them to a QUALIFIED professional. Far too much advice received from online forums lead to decreased value, both aesthetic and monetary.

 

[organicsscience]

I believe its never been proven that the Willamette meteorite actually came from the floods, its a theory or was that came about during the first court sessions to help prove that the natives have no right to it because it didn't even originate here. But there was verbal history passed down that supposedly it was witnessed when it crashed down. The local tribe bad a name for the meteorite. It ment something like came from the sky people. I suppose its possible that natives knew what meteorites looked like from passed down history but I think its more likely that it was witnessed and maybe I found part of the field to prove it?

Just thoughts for now but I'm not discounting it. The file window looks like pure metal. I believe I found some pieces with olovine

 

[organicsscience]

I guess another thought if it did get taken here by floods then I doubt it was the only piece to make its way here. That big of a meteorite should have a big strewn field