🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Space rock ?

Donvic

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This rock cut my attention because it looked like a little animal or something stepped on it and also it weighs 200.48 g which is 1002.5 carats one thing I have was saying it may be a space rock because I see a lot of Things in it that are round white also the weight it is magnetic it does stick to a magnet not real strong it’s 3 inches long by 2 1/2 , part 2 at bottom
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inches wide it has what looks like two eyes and a mouth in the front with a skull that looks like was that down by a little animal or something with a footprint on the back Here’s some pictures if anyone can help me identify it really would appreciate it thank you for your time
 

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I don't think it is a meteor, it does not look like any I have ever seen or pictures searched, the shapes you think you see are caused by pareidolia.
 

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Donvic

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This rock cut my attention because it looked like a little animal or something stepped on it and also it weighs 200.48 g which is 1002.5 carats one thing I have was saying it may be a space rock because I see a lot of Things in it that are round white also the weight it is magnetic it does stick to a magnet not real strong it’s 3 inches long by 2 1/2 , part 2 at bottom View attachment 2049156 View attachment 2049157 View attachment 2049158 View attachment 2049159 View attachment 2049160 View attachment 2049161 View attachment 2049162 View attachment 2049163 inches wide it has what looks like two eyes and a mouth in the front with a skull that looks like was that down by a little animal or something with a footprint on the back Here’s some pictures if anyone can help me identify it really would appreciate it thank you for your time
How about a lunar moon rock I think I seen some like this .
 

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Definitely not a space-rock (and note that a "meteor" is the streak seen in our atmosphere from a "meteoroid", which is then termed a "meteorite" if it reaches the Earth's surface).

It won't be magnetite because that's strongly attracted to a magnet. Hematite is non-magnetic except when magnetite is present as a secondary mineral. Hematite is easily determined from the red-brown streak it will give on the unglazed back of a porcelain tile.

It appears to be a terrestrial igneous porphyry and perhaps in the territory of "spotted basalt". Many igneous Earth rocks (including some basalts) are weakly magnetic.
 

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Definitely not a space-rock (and note that a "meteor" is the streak seen in our atmosphere from a "meteoroid", which is then termed a "meteorite" if it reaches the Earth's surface).

It won't be magnetite because that's strongly attracted to a magnet. Hematite is non-magnetic except when magnetite is present as a secondary mineral. Hematite is easily determined from the red-brown streak it will give on the unglazed back of a porcelain tile.

It appears to be a terrestrial igneous porphyry and perhaps in the territory of "spotted basalt". Many igneous Earth rocks (including some basalts) are weakly magnetic.
I I am sorry this is not the rock the sticks to a magnet I was thinking about the other rock I have when I was saying that it attracted to a magnet this one doesn’t stick to a magnet I started collecting all kinds of rocks so once again I apologize but thank you for giving me some more education on meteors
 

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