http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/baltimore-pa-meteor/strange-rock-reports/ Astronomers look up meteorite hunters look down Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/baltimore-pa-meteor/strange-rock-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Russell Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:55:36 +0000 http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/?p=1190#comment-586 A little boy running a root beer stand near dove-in-hand showed me a rock that was magnetic and heavy but wasn't very smooth and wouldn't pick up on my metal detecter. I was dissapointed later when he had chipped away on one side to show some rusty dark blue striations, clearly formed from sedimentation here on earth. Don't get discouraged or give up! this just means that your one step closer to finding what your searching for! A little boy running a root beer stand near dove-in-hand showed me a rock that was magnetic and heavy but wasn’t very smooth and wouldn’t pick up on my metal detecter. I was dissapointed later when he had chipped away on one side to show some rusty dark blue striations, clearly formed from sedimentation here on earth. Don’t get discouraged or give up! this just means that your one step closer to finding what your searching for!

]]> http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/baltimore-pa-meteor/strange-rock-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Russell Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:44:05 +0000 http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/?p=1190#comment-585 Most likely a meteor-wrong, Try running a nickel test If you still have doubts. It looks like a magnitite conglomerate or other metal ore mixed with some large qrain quartz/calcite, If it had more of a fusion crust I could see how it could be mistaken as possibly a stony chondrite. It looks too jagged and not very smooth except on the one side. Most likely a meteor-wrong, Try running a nickel test If you still have doubts. It looks like a magnitite conglomerate or other metal ore mixed with some large qrain quartz/calcite, If it had more of a fusion crust I could see how it could be mistaken as possibly a stony chondrite. It looks too jagged and not very smooth except on the one side.

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