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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[organicsscience]

And I used the brass brush very gently and the color is not from why I did

 

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[TheTh3rd]

Thanks everyone for your help!

What's the weight? Have you tried a density test?

 

[organicsscience]

I was a little confused I think I did the density test wrong. It weighs 178.6 grams

 

[Tuberale]

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

No strewn field at all. That was my point. There is no strewn field, just pieces which have eroded off the main mass, and which now are under the protection of the Chinook Indian tribe.

 

[Tuberale]

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

No, you didn't. The Willamette Meteorite is perhaps one of the most studied and documented stone in the world. It's history is long, complex, and convoluted. But according to Richard N. Pugh, who presents compelling evidence that the stone did not land in Oregon in Oregon Geology, July, 1986, the Willamette Meteorite got here by hitchhiking in a large iceberg during the many Bretz Floods which carved out the Columbia River gorge. This "theory" has yet to be disproved.

 

[kcm]

I doubt even with a 1-mile thick sheet of solid ice on top, that a meteor that size and density wouldn't still make "some" amount of impact into the frozen ground below. Either that or it hit on the ice at an angle and skidded, bounced and rolled until it finally came to rest somewhere. It makes sense that the ice deposited the rock where it sits today. The kinetic energy that would have been unleashed by that rock would have been staggering!!

 

[organicsscience]

Even if that may be true and probably is, what's to say that there wasn't other pieces that were brought here as well maybe an entire strewn field could have been transported here by ice
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[kcm]

Yes, very much so. Anything that size traveling that fast isn't going to remain 100% intact, unless POSSIBLY it hit ocean water just right. But the only way you'll know if that is part of the other is to have it professionally examined against the actual samples/results of the larger piece. Anything outside of that is sheer speculation, except maybe for people who have an intimate knowledge of the Willamette meteorite.

 

[Hitndahed]

Thanks everyone for your help!

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We find stuff that looks like this quite a bit where I live.
The "experts" call it "bog iron",, but I think it MIGHT be meteoric.
At least where we live it supposedly erodes out of the sandstone and was some kind of chemical thing with the limestone that used to cover the local mountains.
Personally I think that they ARE meteors,, due to that they are found in very ancient sedimentary sandstone.
You can look at the mine and see the brown "blobs" where they were dug out while mining the sand.
I have found them in many shapes too,, from "ropey" to classic "thumbprint" and round.