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Jeramiah
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Posted: Feb 06, 2025 10:30 Post subject: I’ve exhausted all local help! Please help me identify this? |
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Some key points:
Non magnetic
Great conductor
Hear distributes doesn’t leave any dark areas
Heavy
Scratches glass
Mineral: | Iron meteorite |
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Forrestblyth
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Posted: Feb 06, 2025 10:37 Post subject: Re: I’ve exhausted all local help! Please help me identify this? |
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Perhaps an earth metallic ore
One test to be certain if extra terrestrial in nature is as follows. but you would have to slab a section. You would then be certain if present
Widmanstätten patterns are distinctive, interlocking patterns of crystals that can be observed on the polished surfaces of iron meteorites
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Pete Richards
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Posted: Feb 06, 2025 13:32 Post subject: Re: I’ve exhausted all local help! Please help me identify this? |
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If it's non-magnetic, it is not an iron meteorite.
Consider the possibility that it is a partially-refined metal - a smelting product - rather than a natural rock or mineral.
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Bob Carnein
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Posted: Feb 06, 2025 16:14 Post subject: Re: I’ve exhausted all local help! Please help me identify this? |
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That looks synthetic (man made) to me.
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Jeramiah
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Posted: Feb 07, 2025 09:01 Post subject: Re: I’ve exhausted all local help! Please help me identify this? |
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Bob Carnein wrote: | That looks synthetic (man made) to me. |
A local middle school ran test on this for four weeks. They concluded with their “best guess”
Annite I believe it was. What should I cut it with? What test should I do to debunk man made? Could it be a silicone?
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