WHAT IS THIS

[oakalley2]

I FOUND THIS ROCK ALONG WITH A BIGGER ONE, THE BIGGER ONE HAS BIGGER PITS ON IT ALMOST LIKE CRATERS.
THE BIGGER ONE IS NOT WITH ME RIGHT NOW. I FOUND THEM IN A FEILD. MAYBE SOMEONE CAN TILL WHAT IT IS

 

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[mattjd]

Has to be a metiorite. Sweet! That's real nice. I'd like to see a pictures of the bigger one too if you could. Nice finds!

Matt

 

[oakalley2]

I'LL GET A PIC. OF THE BIGGER ON ON FRIDAY

 

[mattjd]

Not sure how much you know about meteorites, but there really valuable.

Matt

 

[Marc]

Is it magnetic? Is it iron? (does a magnet stick to it?)

It looks like nickel...

hmm, same color as this... http://www.greatsouth.net/p-M1124.html

Keep us posted on what you find out!!!

 

[don Lupe]

Ghee whizz Oakalley, definitly NOT a meteorite! but golly-gee! What is it?? never ever seen anything like it..Gotta feeling that you really know what it is, or made up to be..Few yrs ago in Quartzite Az, saw some folks trying to sell a 30lb mass of melted-down Nichols as a meteorite.. Anybody else comment?

 

[PBK]

I'd guess maybe metallic slag or a clinker. However, if you think it's a meteorite, there are plenty of good sites online to check it out. Just Google "Meteorite ID" or "Meteorite/Meteorwrong" and you'll get plenty of hits.

 

[Maverick]

Sure looks like a foil-wrapped baked potato that just came out of the oven!

 

[Boobydoo]

Interesting find for sure.
Check out the ID sites as PBK mentioned.

here's one...

http://www.ess.ucla.edu/research/cosmochem/meteorite.asp

good luck.
BDoo

 

[ScottNewMexico]

Meteorites don't "normally" have pits in them, but I hope for you that this is one!! That would be really cool! Keep us posted!

 

[EDDE]

space rocks also smell burnt ,they cook there way doen in the atmosphere so.......

 

[peterjl]

to me that rock(?) looks like it has been pocked alot with a tooth pick haha.Correct me if i'm wrong but I think I have read somewhere that a meteorite does have some kind of mineral that sometimes burn up during the process of reaching earths ground and those hold could be it.

 

[Wetgreenie]

I could be waay off but, To me it looks like it could be silicon just from the picture.
I have seen a sample once and it was darker like yours....wierd stuff

I saw a guy even Knap (chip) an arrowhead out of the stuff.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ges?q=silicon+element&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N

 

[wolfpaw518]

space rocks also smell burnt ,they cook there way doen in the atmosphere so.......

REALLY? ...had'nt heard this before...

 

[Axel]

i'm not right into minerals , so pull me up if i'm wrong , and let me down gentley ..
i spray metalics at work and the metalics are made up of silicon dioxides , and titanium dioxides... and have a certain look abou the raw materials... which i very much like this picture...

hmmm , i know what i meant..

 

[Snee]

More than anything, this reminds me of the "meteorite" in Joe Dirt. Anyone else?

 

[Wetgreenie]

That was funny! i found some script talking about it.

"Airplanes dump their toilets 36,000
feet, stuff freezes, falls to earth. We call them Boeing bombs.

You see the peanut? Dead giveaway.
Yeah, that's a space peanut.
I'm afraid not.
This is a big old frozen
chunk of poopie.

Dude, you were eating off it!"

 

[Texas_Meteorite_Hunter]

It is NOT a meteorite. It's likely slag. The air-bubbles are an indicator.

 

[bearbqd]

Some of you seem to have some misconceptions about what features a meteorite can and can't have. There are several types of meteorites with different mineral make ups. Here's a pretty cool site to see a nice variety of different types.

http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/AZ_Skies_Links/Meteorite_Photos/index.html

 

[Rob66]

looks like... one form of a metiorite.