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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 17:41:38 GMT -5
a guy comes in the shop the other day and says he has 40 lb of this stuff and its meteorite from arazona -- like 5 big chunks so he asked me to slice a piece off and polish it then he put some acid on it to etch it and this is what it looks like --- anybody know if its the real thing
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Post by stoner on Jan 18, 2006 17:48:18 GMT -5
Hey John. If the second pic is more like the real color, then yes it is a meteorite. In the sky, it is called a meteor. Once it hits the ground, it becomes a meteorite. It looks like it's got the right pattern and if it is nickel colored it is a meteorite. Did ya get any of it? Very cool stuff. Older than any rock here on earth.
Ed
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 18:02:54 GMT -5
ed im cuttin a maybe 8 lb piece for him i slabbed like 6 slabs and he said keep one i fig ill make a pendent for myself maybe if it turns out real hahaha when i went to his house last nite he had the rest on the kitchin table and there large like all over the size of a soft ball and very heavy--- it kinda looks like hemitite till ya start cuttin it it dont bleed red ---it cuts black and has a pocked crust on it------ill get a pic of the slab i got tomorrow
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Post by docone31 on Jan 18, 2006 18:03:14 GMT -5
Yeah Sands, that is the real deal. Good layering. Really lucky find!!!! Yeah
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Post by Cher on Jan 18, 2006 18:10:43 GMT -5
Why on earth would he have you polish it then etch it with acid? Very strange but good one for you that you got a chunk of it. I've never seen a meteorite, that would be really cool to find one.
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 18:14:50 GMT -5
cher he said it has to be polished well and then etched to show the tubes and flow lines in the pattern
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Post by texasrockhound on Jan 18, 2006 19:04:13 GMT -5
john - the guy has 40 lbs?!!! Wow... does he know what fall it was from? man that's pretty exciting stuff...more pics please!! hope you get some of it!! here's a good shot of iron meteorite patterning...
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Post by rollingstone on Jan 18, 2006 19:05:36 GMT -5
Sands, for someone to have 40 lbs of iron meteorite would be extremely unusual, but when I see your picture I start thinking maybe it really is a meteorite. That would be an amazing find, and possibly worth a small fortune to boot. If you can, post some pics of the hunks of suspected meteorite including the pitted exterior, as the exterior is often key in identification. Often iron meteorites show iron crystal patterns, I'm not sure if yours does or does not as I'm just a dabbler in this kind of thing. Some show very prominent patterns, others much less prominent than yours. Here's an example of a good crystal pattern, and also shows the kind of exterior pattern you expect on an iron meteorite. meteorites.asu.edu/images/education/rancho-gomelia-big.jpg
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Post by Alice on Jan 18, 2006 19:09:59 GMT -5
does it feel heavy sands? compared to other rocks of the same size?
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 19:16:12 GMT -5
i still have the end cut from the chunk i just slabbed for him ill get a few pics of the crust and post them
he said he had a piece tested and looked at by dif people and got both yes and i dont think so when the test came back it had all the minerals of one but they couldent be shore where or what fall it was from ill write down the min content when i see him again he told me but i dont remember -- he told me his father inlaw lived in arazona and he usta walk the desert and he had a pile of these in the yard when he passed and he grabbed a few to take when they sold his house -- the guy was a rockhound of sorts he would bring home anything out of the ordinary
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 19:19:50 GMT -5
yea alice it feels like hemitite maybe heavyer the piece i had was around 3x3inch face about 5 inches long and id say like 8lb or better
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Post by texasrockhound on Jan 18, 2006 19:24:24 GMT -5
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Post by SteveHolmes on Jan 18, 2006 19:32:17 GMT -5
That's Cool! People are beginning to find more and more of meteorites..and it's big MONEY$$$. Check this thread out:
(1/17/06 9:07 pm) Reply Empty holes in a field turn into meteor mining -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODERATOR NOTE: Special thanks to LarryKS for submitting this article .....
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Empty holes in a field turn into meteor mining By Travis Heying
Steve Arnold tried to use humor to hide the disappointment. "You been missing one of these?" Arnold turned and asked landowner Ronald Ross after a backhoe exposed the rusty remnants of an old metal barrel beneath the dirt of Ross' 100-acre wheat field.
What Arnold was hoping to find was something that more resembled the 1,400-pound pallasite meteor he unearthed last October. The one expected to fetch anywhere from $1 million to $3 million.
Since Arnold's phenomenal celestial discovery, he's bought a home in Greensburg and now searches for meteors full time.
Using a metal detector that will penetrate 20 feet deep, Arnold, a Wichita native, pulls the device across wheat fields behind an old ATV.
With Arnold's notoriety due to his recent discovery, on Tuesday he drew a small audience when he decided to start digging.
Ross, a retired Kansas farmer now living in Sarasota, Fla., flew in when Arnold told him he was about to dig three holes in his field. Three places his metal detector told him he might find another buried treasure.
"When he called and said he had three prospects, my wife said I should go out and watch. And you always do what your wife says, don't you?" Ross said.
But so far all Arnold had to show him was a chunk of rusty metal.
Arnold drove away on his ATV and Ross saddled up on Dan Woods' backhoe. Whyte Eagle ezOP Posts: 9043 (1/17/06 9:08 pm) Reply Re: Empty holes in a field turn into meteor mining -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A second dig began.
The second hole quickly grew deeper and deeper. Nothing was turning up.
"This is about the time I start to second-guess myself," Arnold said as the pile of dirt next to the hole reached five feet tall.
Arnold had told Ross that his third location, near a dirt road, was the least likely spot for a meteor. Most likely junk from someone's car.
If Arnold didn't unearth something fast, the only discovery Ross was going to make was that he flew from Florida to Kansas to watch someone dig a few big holes.
Arnold, with Woods' help, dragged his metal detector over the hole. Nothing.
"Why don't you try the dirt pile?" Woods asked.
The two men held the detector over the pile. It began buzzing.
Woods hopped up in the backhoe and pushed dirt off the pile.
"There!" Arnold yelled.
He jumped on the pile and within seconds was rolling out what looked like nothing more than a dirt-covered rock.
"Congratulations, Ron," Arnold said to the landowner. "You're the proud papa of a brand new baby pallasite meteor."
Arnold estimated that the meteor weighed 80 to 90 pounds. A disappointment, perhaps, when you compare it with his 1,400-pound find.
"What's it worth?" someone asked.
"Probably $60,000. Maybe more," Arnold said.
Ronald Ross just smiled.
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 19:41:55 GMT -5
DAM NOW I KNOW IM GOIN TO ARIZONA HAHAHA
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Post by texasrockhound on Jan 18, 2006 19:48:21 GMT -5
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 18, 2006 19:54:37 GMT -5
he is tryin to prove its real cause everybody says something dif but he did get a few yes it is ---from some that seen the pattern after etching-- if it turns out real i prob will make a pendent for myself cause im allready out there hahaha --- it would fit right in around my neck
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Post by texasrockhound on Jan 18, 2006 20:01:58 GMT -5
hehehe... roger that!
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Post by gaetzchamp on Jan 18, 2006 23:47:35 GMT -5
Sands-
Have you tried sticking a magnet to it? I take magnets w/ me wherever I go (fishing, camping, hounding etc) just for that reason. If it sticks you definitely got a rock w/ some good iron content. Are the all flat on one side? They are worth big money and it's a dream of mine to stumble across a chuck of space rock.
Keep us posted,
Gaetz
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jan 19, 2006 0:07:04 GMT -5
i want to know who is the buyer for the meteorites?
kim
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 19, 2006 0:10:52 GMT -5
whatcha mean kim
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