Possible Tissint Metorite

[RTR]

Found on a beach in Florida 3 weeks ago, a foot down .Metal detector rang a strong iron signal. Its 2"x3"x3" with weight of 4.6 ozs.

 

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[RTR]

Did A little research and found this info.
And its Not Magnetic

 

[Treasure-coast-steve]

Possible from a space shuttle explosion

 

[RTR]

How can it ring up as Iron, and not be magnetic

 

[Red-Coat]

Meteorites are named after the nearest place that they fell. Tissint is a very rare Martian shergottite that was a 'witnessed fall', centred around 48km SW of Tissint village in Morocco in 2011.

Why would you think a piece of it would wash up on a beach in Florida?

Tissint is an iron-rich basalt and although the iron content is low in absolute terms, it's very weakly magnetic. If you mean did you find a shergottite or other class of Martian basaltic meteorite, then I think you probably know the answer to that in terms of likelihood.

 

[RTR]

Meteorites are named after the nearest place that they fell. Tissint is a very rare Martian shergottite that was a 'witnessed fall', centred around 48km SW of Tissint village in Morocco in 2011.

Why would you think a piece of it would wash up on a beach in Florida?

Tissint is an iron-rich basalt and although the iron content is low in absolute terms, it's very weakly magnetic. If you mean did you find a shergottite or other class of Martian basaltic meteorite, then I think you probably know the answer to that in terms of likelihood.

So Tissint is the only Location this type meteorite has fallen on the planet ...in Billions of years Or just in recent recorded history ?

 

[Red-Coat]

So Tissint is the only Location this type meteorite has fallen on the planet ...in Billions of years Or just in recent recorded history ?

No, there are 201 recorded shergottites in the MetSoc database. That may sound a lot but the majority of them were small Saharan desert finds which represent ‘paired’ falls (ie multiple fragments which came from the same falls spread over wider areas). It’s a rare class, as are all Martian meteorites.

Self-assessing odd looking rocks as Martian meteorites based on Googling is a bit like looking up your illness symptoms in a medical encyclopaedia without having any medical knowledge or taking into account the other more likely possibilities...

Splitting headache… check
Joints aching everywhere… check
Running a temperature… check
Shivering chills… check
Severe fatigue… check

OMG, I’ve got classic symptoms of Limpopo Swamp Fever. I’ll be dead by the morning. Oh. Wait. I might have ‘flu.