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Found at the beach. Meteorite-like?
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It does look like a meteorite, but it also looks like a bit of water tumbled slag (meteorwrong).
Have you given it the magnet test?
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Yes non magneticSW ConnecticutComment
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Olden already nailed it. Try a magnet, if it doesn't stick probably not a meteorite. Usually they seem melted more on one side. Oh yea, they are extremely hard to find, so odds are, it's slag. If not that then, I don't know. Several different kinds of iron ore, could be some form of that. The bubbles look like its from an industrial process.
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Olden your right about slag looking at site u put up thx for inputSW ConnecticutComment
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There are some meteorites, namely the class known as achondrites, that are not magnetic, but one thing you will not see in the real deal is all those vesicles. That's a dead giveaway for it not being a meteorite right there.Rhode IslandComment
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Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh - Now don't get me started on another Hobby Y'all! I'm just getting used to arrowheads :- ] Gotta admit it's an interesting find Red.Pickett/Fentress County, Tn - Any day on this side of the grass is a good day. -Chuck-Comment
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Ok thx a lot Charlie bro in law thought they were regmaglypts..wow. And thought he might have lunar or martian meteorite..is slag and coke ferrous?.....SW ConnecticutComment
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Red, I was just explaining the "thumbprints" feature on meteorites, and did not see this comment before I wrote. Your brother-in-law's mistake is easy to make if you're not used to real meteorites. Red, I'm not up on the composition of slag, sorry. Speaking of lunar meteorites, the price per gram has plummeted in recent years, and you too can own a piece of the moon for crazy low prices, lol....
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Red, it's not hard to see how you, or anyone, might think that was a meteorite. There is a surface feature, found on both iron and stone meteorites, known as regmaglypts, nicknamed "thumbprints", and which form via the action of air, when the surface of the meteorite is in a molten state during its brief flight through the atmosphere. Here is a small specimen of the iron meteorite called Sikhote-Alin, which fell in Siberia in 1947, and which shows those "thumbprints" nicely. This is what most folks visualize when they think of meteorites, and the surface features of slag can be easily enough confused with this appearance.Last edited by CMD; 08-27-2018, 06:06 PM.Rhode IslandComment
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Thanx Charlie I and he appreciate your input man ...ohh man he was hoping lunar or martian 1000 an ounce? Wow. One more thing..the one in your pic is iron right ? And thus one is Rick .could that appear a bit diff cuz of that fact do you think?SW ConnecticutComment
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Not Rick ..Rock sorrySW ConnecticutComment
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Oh I see in your post it says both kinds have megraglypts .... ThanxSW ConnecticutComment
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Hi,
Its most likely a fulgurite. It’s the result of a lightning strike on a beach or just in soil. They are all over the beaches here in the Carolina’s. They come in all kinds of weird shapes and most folks walk right past them not knowing what they are.
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Thanks for the input von ...I'll Google fulguriteSW ConnecticutComment
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Most of the pictures on line show them before they are tumbled in the surf and sand. Yours looks like a beach find. Here’s a picture of one I found on a local golf course and a meteorite I have. All of them are not that pretty. If you want a really nice one you have to dig it up right after the lightning strike.
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