Meteorite

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>>6564410
Please refrain from commenting on here/hear typo in the OP. I apologize and am not realizing how out of it I currently feel.

Here's the "stuff", I'm currently showing how it surprisingly stuck to my tweezers, and if you note between this pic and the next the different in how much dark dust stuff is sticking to these little colored rocks I'm sure you can see that whatever this stuff is it's clearly magnetic.

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>>6564417
Here's a pic I took of those few pieces earlier before I dumped more stuff that fell off onto the pile and realized all the little shavings were sticking to the colored rock pieces.

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>>6564417
This was the wrong pic, pic related.

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I'll post a few more pics, but if there's no interest or anyone that can help I'll just let this die.

The next 5 pictures are of the top, the 5 after that are of the bottom, then the next 4 are close ups.

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This is the bottom, the top actually has more shaving type stuff you can brush off with your finger but the bottom is black. Can anyone tell me why that would be?

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Ok, no one is interested, I'm going for a smoke.

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4chan "Detected possible malicious code in file image" so I had to skip one.

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In this pic you can clearly see one of the reflective pieces of stuff that's all over the rock but the phone camera can't pick up most of them because the reflection is too small.

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You got some valuable Tecnecium there OP!

You can always search at your local university for some professor focused on mineralogy OP.

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>>6564475
What?

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>>6564479
I don't know man, some legit meteorites can be worth 1000 bucks a gram. I wouldn't trust a college professor with two ounces to "test". I've heard a lot of stuff about people getting rare minerals tested and being told it's worthless only for the guy to take and sell it for a lot of money.

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This is the top at a different angle, the bottom will be the next pic so you can really see the color difference.

>>6564484
Not that you have to sell it OP anyways, but having some characterization made on it would be helpful for identification.

Would be useful to do some EDAX (though I dunno about Tc detection).

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Here are some close ups. I'd really like to get the opinion of a geologist or at least a meteorite hobbyist.

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>>6564484
Only a special kind of Meteorite is worth "1000/bucks a gram", pic related.
Your rock could be a chondrite, which doesn't worth very high price.
Just go ask an expert and keep the rock with you.

I wouldn't touch it with my bare hands.

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>>6564506
I wouldn't sell it, but I wasn't the one that found it I just happen to be the one looking stuff up for her.

Here's a pic of one of the larger reflective pieces and the next pic will be slightly angled without the reflection for comparison.

>>6564515
"My God—it's full of stars!"

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>>6564508
Lunar Meteorites are worth $1000/gram. I was perplexed because the only pics I could see of meteorites were smooth, had a crust, all this other stuff that looked nothing like what I had. Then one kind anon posted this pic of a Lunar Meteorite in the thread I made on /b/. I checked out the website he linked it to and some of the pics look identical to what I have, right down to the same colored rocks inside when you cut it open that fell off the outside of mine in the first few pics.

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>>6564510
Funny story man, when I hold it my hands are gradually chilled to the bones. I don't really have a way to describe it. The rock itself isn't cold to the touch, it's a little cooler than room temperature but when I hold it for more than a few seconds the inside of my hands start getting really, really chilled. Creepy.

Here's the inside of a lunar meteorite so you can see the comparison of the colored rocks to what I posted just after the OP.

>>6564410

How does your grandma know the rock wasn't there? I mean if she leaves shit like that laying around for a month, how can be sure the rock didn't come from somewhere else? Maybe someone moved it doing some yard work and she didn't notice.

Here's why I don't think it's a meteorite. If it hit her house, it would have went through the roof/wall. It wouldn't have just bounced off. If it hit the concrete patio, it would have cracked it and/or cracked the rock itself.

If you really want to stick with the story that it hit her house, I would ask if anyone is doing some blasting in the area. Does she live in the mountains?

I know a legit meteorite dealer. I've helped him handle some specimens. The 1000/gram stuff isn't common. I've seen small pieces of Mars meteorite go for less than that. I've seen a $4000 slice that used to be in a local museum and what you have isn't that either. You can trust someone to look at it. They're not going to beat you over the head and take it, especially if it's a professor.

>>6564527

You're fucking delusional.

>>6564527
I hope you are not suffering from nerve damage due to radioactivity or something else, and you are just the superman and this is a cryptonite.

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>>6564534
It didn't hit her house, she thought something hit her house when in fact it just hit her porch. I had the same thoughts as you when I was told about it, it sounded ridiculous, I actually thought it had busted up the concrete, and if a meteorite did in fact hit, I was looking at busted concrete and the meteorite was something small sitting in the rubble.

However after looking at some of the other moon rocks and seeing that the little pieces coming off of it are magnetized I'm leaning towards thinking it might be legit.

Here are some other lunar meteorite pics that I've been using to compare the two.

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>>6564539
I don't know man, could be.

>>6564571
Put a camera up close and look for a noise.

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Last one for comparison.

Like I said all I know is what I was told, after being told the concrete around the rock had turned white like it'd been heated, the first thing that came to mind was some kids in a pickup driving around in the back with a large rock, holding a torch and heating it up and then going 100mph and throwing it out and it ended up on her porch.

That was more plausible to me than it being a meteorite, but the more I think about it the more ridiculous that sounds.

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>>6564576
What?

A close up of the black part on the bottom.

>>6564579
Noise from radiation.

>>6564410
http://www.aerolite.org/found-a-meteorite.htm

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Here's one more comparison for people saying it would have a huge impact and leave a crater. This is nearly the same weight as the one I have and in sand/pebbles this is the size of the crater it left. It's not what you see on TV. I would say if that hit concrete it might legitimately not crack it. (The concrete patio is 6" or 12" thick)

>>6564580
You mean a cell phone or cordless house phone? Do I need to be on a phone call?

Guys, I'm starting to feel a little weird. Like when my head is too close to the microwave while it's being used.

>>6564565

Lunar meteorites aren't the only kind of meteorite. Where do you live? We just had a meteor shower last week. Meteors from a comet trail.

if it's magnetized, there is an above 90% chance that it's a meteorite

>>6564591
Florida

>>6564596
Thanks, I didn't know if some regular rocks are magnetized as well but the small pieces that fell off of it are sticking to metal.

>>6564586
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsG6JsMAJ_Q

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>>6564611
They want me to pay. But as you can see in this pic the little shavings are sticking to these colored pebbles or whatever.

/sci/, how quickly can extremely small rocks lose their magnetic qualities?

>>6564586
No. If something is radioactive, the EM waves will cause interference with electronic devices. Putting a camera close to a radioactive source will cause interference with the camera, and this shows up as snow on the viewscreen. You should see like little bursts of color on the camera screen. It should be fairly noticeable if you bring the camera close to a radioactive object in the dark, because the entire camera screen will be dark except for random pixels changing color for half a second. Some shitty cameras will do this regardless though, so try it somewhere else beforehand

A phone might work as well, but you'd probably have to use a corded phone and have the cord go right over the object. Otherwise you can't really tell if you're getting interference from radiation or just because your cell signal is poor.

>>6564691
>in the dark
You can simply put a patch of dark duct tape over it. Alpha would be blocked by lens anyway.

>>6564596
Why do meteorites tend to be magnetized?

>>6564697
>>6564691
Used cell's camera, didn't do anything. After reading more it seems most meteorites are less radioactive than dirt, something about the earth's natural background radiation being higher than what a meteorite is exposed to in space.

>>6564410
>rock falls from outerspace onto your grandma's driveway or whatever
>concrete turns 'white'
>no mention whatsoever of physical damage
>rock somehow doesn't bounce/shatter into dust considering the concrete is relatively unphased


this story isn't even cool, faggot.

>>6564789
You watch too much tv bro, meteorites won't even make a small crater unless they're something like 100lbs or more. I read a lot because it didn't make sense to me either at first, but apparently something this size will just land on the ground with a thud, or in this case the concrete.

>yfw OP is going to die due to radiation poisoning

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Here is a super shitty web.m of the small pieces in the 2nd and 3rd pics in this thread magnetically attaching themselves to my metal tweezers and then subsequently becoming demagnetized. If one of you /sci/guys can tell me why they stop clinging on to my tweezers after a minute that would be great.

>>6564840
I did the camera in darkness test, no radiation.

>>6565825
Do you taste metal, or have noticed hair loss or marked impotence?

The red stuff looks like vanadinite

>>6565834
Well, I... I haven't felt like having sex for the past day or so... and I did wake up feeling nauseous in a cold sweat yesterday.... oh god... what's happening to me?

Also I've been growling at anything I don't like, and just randomly... I've had to stop myself from impulses to bite things, random objects, people's throats. Guys, I think I might be turning into a werewolf. Did I inhale too much moon dust? Or some pathogen from the moon? Have we discovered the origins of werewolves? What am I going to do guys?

>>6565853
no you're a furry

>>6565850
The color's a little off, and it's not the same shape. If it were then this wouldn't be a meteorite since vanadinite is caused by oxydation. We'll see when we cut it open either tonight or tomorrow.

>>6565855
I'm kidding man, what a horrible thing to say to someone.

>>6564410
contact some sort of university, theyll confirm if its real and you can sell it to them.

my dad found one last year got thousands

>>6564410
As I said in the thread on /b/ last night; it appears to lack a fusion crust, it's probably not a meteorite.

>>6565920
I agree that it appears to lack fusion crust, but after more research I've read that on rare occasion a meteorite will only have fusion crust on one side, or not at all.

Take a look at these examples.
>>6564521
>>6564565
>>6564571
>>6564575
>>6564577
>>6564584

On top of that I discovered that the little colored rocks inside had magnetic properties as seen here.

>>6565825

>tfw last year of geology b.s.
>tfw can't identify shit.

>>6564425
Might be garnet.

>>6564484

you're a fucking idiot.

It's not hard walking into a professors office and asking him what he thinks about it. Regardless of whether he says its worthless or not, you could still keep it.

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rock has that alien look

>>6564804
>rocks dont bounce

fucking idiot. ive dropped enough rocks from high places (not even approaching outer fucking space) and guess what happens every time?

>>6564804
If a meteor is small enough to be slowed down by the atmosphere it will still hit the ground with terminal velocity.
A rock like that going at terminal velocity would damage the house.

>>6567186
you may very well have an iron meteorite there. easiest way to tell: try sticking a magnet to it.
if not, then there really is no easy way to tell from pictures what it is exactly.
>>6567165
mmm, maybe. silicates are typically not found in meteorites.

>>6567407
It didn't hit the house, it hit a concrete patio. Not the type of concrete cinderblocks are made out of, the darker, denser concrete, whatever that is.

>>6567544
Kitchen magnets don't work, but if you look here >>6565825 you can see that the colored pebbles inside have magnetic properties, and the shavings that have fallen off of it are sticking to them. However it looks much more like a stony meteorite than a metal one. I still haven't gotten around to cutting a piece off to send somewhere.

All the metal meteorite pictures I've looked at look WAY different than this, mainly because of the obvious fusion crust. However, Lunar and Martian Stony Meteorites look much more similar to this one and some can have little to no fusion crust. Don't ask me why, I'm not a scientist.

Don't you die on me, might be cutting it open today.

>>6568425
Do it. You have piqued my interest.

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>>6565920
>As I said in the thread on /b/ last night; it appears to lack a fusion crust

Lacking a fusion crust doesn't mean it is not a meteorite, sure most have them but some don;t and meteorites value is primarily determined by it's uniqueness so that is at least hopeful for op

>>6564410
>Grandma here's loud noise

I already knew what that rock was the second you posted this thread but I was banned so I had to wait till now to reply.

See these
>>6564622

Those are chondrules. And the redder pieces of rock are olivine and pyroxene.

And of course
>>6564471
Iron metal which explains the magnetization properties.

What you have here I am sure OP is a very common meteorite which falls roughly udner the H chrondrites, however,this is a rather rare type of H chrondite, so rare it doesn't really have a classification to itself.

However that being said I don;t think it is extremely valuable. but it should be more valuable than normal H Chronicles. When you cut it open you will see a beautiful cross section of the olivine and pyroxene which should appear as red and yellow circles within the rock and some glitter of iron.

>>6568425
Tease.

Measure the density.

Post pictures of it next to your dick, for comparison

>>6568467
Thank you for your very informative post. It sounds like you're familiar with this stuff, is it a hobby or something to do with your job?

>>6568483
Yes. Though after reading the previous post I feel invigorated to get started. My sleep schedule is pretty messed up and I was thinking about hitting the hay but now I'm considering grabbing the saw right now.

>>6568485
How would I even do that?

>>6568486
At first I half scoffed, half laughed at your post. Now I'm thinking something along the lines of "How often does someone get a chance to put his member on something from space?"

No pics for you bro.

>>6568520
Please cut it open now.

>>6568520
>How would I even do that?
Easy, m8. Think about what density is. (hint: kg/m^3).
All you've gotta do is fill a big container with water up to the very top and drop the meteorite in. Then you measure the volume of water that was pushed out of the container. This is the volume of the meteorite.
Then you just find the mass of the meteorite.
Then you divide the mass by the volume. Bingo. Density.

>>6568525
why the fuck didn't they explain that so succinctly in high school god damn my education sucked

>>6568529
American education?

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>>6568467
Also, how would you suggest cutting it? Just completely in half? Because I'm kind of strange, and feel it's a shame to cut it at all. I know it has to be done but I feel like it's a loss to disturb the preservation of it's natural form.

There is a small "knob" on the bottom that I could hack off, I was looking for a spot that wouldn't disturb any of the maximum dimensions of the meteorite. So I looked for something that wasn't something that any measurement would be taken to determine the meteorites maximum size. That includes extreme point of the X, Y, *and* Z axis. There is a small knob in a larger bowl type area on it that measures about 2.5x2.5 inches but I'm considering that it's possible this does have some kind of crust, and that spot may have been on the back end where the entire knob is made of crust. So it could be completely pointless to cut that off and I'll just have to cut again somewhere else.

Pic related, to be precise.

>>6568525
Neat, except I'm not dropping it in water. There's a lot of dust and stuff on it that's pretty fucking cool, so I don't want to wash it off.

Also, picking it up and flipping it over cause a piece that sounded large to fall and hit the cardboard, and I think I lost it.

Op, it's either shit either some useless rock.

It will surprise you but even rocks from the moon are not something special, there are tons of them on Earth.

>>6568525
To give you a rough estimation the first pic is it sitting on a 9"x11" piece of printer paper and it's "height" is about 5 inches.

Cut it in half. You're so lucky to be the guy that cuts it in half, and not the guy that gives it to someone else to handle... I'm very jelly. Open up the sucker!

>>6568535
Actually man, no moon rock has ever been found on North or South America. It would be the first, also it would be the third largest ever found. But our friend who sounds like he knows what he's talking about is saying it's one of the most common ones.

>>6568531
How'd you know? My math teacher was also the football coach

>>6568537
You've convinced me. Now... what do I use? I have a lot of tools at my disposal. Circular saw, sawzaw (is that even how you spell that?), dremel (I don't know how to spell tools, I just use them) tool with a very small circular blade... chainsaw. Chainsaw? God that would be badass. Maybe on my next one.

>>6568541
>Chainsaw
Don't be retarded mate
You could do it with either a sawzall or a circular saw, I'd go with sawzall myself

>>6568550
>Don't be retarded mate
Dude, I'm fighting the urge to swallow a small piece of it just to say that I did.

>>6568539
Lots of sociology subjects in past degrees and I'm currently working towards becoming a teacher. American teacher standards aren't that great and the curriculum is pretty silly right now. I miss the days of primary students being hands on with stuff like displacement. Remember to be a good dad and do this sort of stuff in the yard with them!

>>6568552
I'm so excited to see these pictures.

>>6568552
It would probably be a win win for us, if you got sick it signals that something on the meteorite is making you sick which would be cool

>>6568557
I have to wait for my dad (not underageb&, economy stuff) and he's bitching about not wanting to cut it right in half. Some website he found said they only want you to send them 4 grams or so, and that's pretty small.

>>6568580
Put a good magnet near it. Does it stick?

>>6568589
I can't find my 2"x2"x3' industrial magnet, and kitchen magnets don't stick, no. However, if you read the thread you would see that material that fell off is magnetic, as demonstrated in the .webm that I posted showing them attaching themselves to my tweezers.

Seriously though I just want to cut it in half and see if I can get a space ruby to fall out of the middle.

>>6568611
b-b-break a bit off so we can see the inside

>>6568619
About three and a half hours when my dad gets back from his dr. appt. He said he's got a handsaw with a very thin blade, still only going to cut off a very small piece though. It's probably going to be like 1/2 or 1/4 inch viewing hole. I feel like I'm going to be disappointed. I really do want to cut it in half and view the beauty of what is inside, if I could I would cut it flat ways from one side to the other so I would be left with a top and bottom half and could have the most viewing surface as possible.

>>6568634
cut the mole off

>>6568467
Ok, here's something I'd like to know. Why doesn't it have a fusion crust? I mean, they're supposed to heat up right? Unless an alien came down and dropped it 100 ft or so over my grandmother's house... hmm...

There are chondrules literally falling off the outside, that seems really strange to me. Especially since they're almost like spongy rocks and felt like bread crumbs in my fingers the first time I picked one up.

The meteorite was sitting on a paper plate, I literally thought someone was stupid enough to sit it on a used paper plate and I was picking up stale bread crumbs. That seems like it would burn off or something, so why didn't it?

>>6568467
>Lacking a fusion crust doesn't mean it is not a meteorite
if it supposedly just fell and it doesn't have a fusion crust then that's a pretty strong indicator that it's not a meteorite.

inb4 OP gets a virus from an ancient version of earth that got hit by a meteor and the chunk that OP got flew off into space then came back after bouncing around the universe for a while.

>>6568529
You never even heard the fukken eureka and naked dude story?

>>6568809
That just goes to show how misinformed people are on the internet, it was practically a witnessed fall son.

>Grandma chilling in her house
>Hear wall shaking BOOM
>Grandma goes to look
>Sees rock that wasn't there a minute ago

Regardless of whether or not it's likely, what you're looking at is a meteorite without a typical fusion crust. Take a good look, because now you know what that looks like and can identify other meteorites without fusion crust and feel superior to your fellow man, like I know you like to do.

I just woke up, and my dad is still awake about to go to bed. I should be cutting it open somewhere around noon or afternoon.

>>6570149
>>6564410

Not a lot adds up to it being a meteorite. A lot of things are off about this but who knows it's not out of the question. .

the only way your actually going to find out if it's a meteorite is if you bring to someone that knows their shit, prob at a local university. Don't give it to them if you dont feel comfortable doing that but your going to need a professional opinion. maybe let them cut off a small sample. don't cut and mangle it all to shit yourself cus maybe you have some rare type and it'd be worth a lot to a collector. Probably not but it's worth taking into consideration. They aren't going to fuckin bash you over the head and run off with it so you don't need to worry about them saying its worthless and taking off with it. If they bring it up, make it clear your not going to sell it to them without second opinions and whatnot so they have no motivation to lie about it. I think it's definitely worth checking out.

Also, look into sightings in your area around the time you Grandma heard it. Something that size may have been visible coming down.

>>6564410
>here's
really?

>>6570302
One of the anon's that sounded pretty informed >>6568467 recognized the stuff in this pic >>6564425 as chondrules. People are saying the red stuff looks like this and that, but everything they're suggesting it may be are very hard crystals with specific and defined shapes. While this stuff is brittle (the smaller pieces anyway) and not very well defined.

I didn't find anything around Jan/Feb this year but I did find this website.

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlFL.html

I ctrl-F my city and am seeing that people have seen strange crafts flying around with jets following them and stuff recently. Feels pretty weird man.

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxloc.html

Follow this link then click on your state and ctrl-F your city.

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>>6570370
Really. I was out of it and I apologized in the second post bro.

Also I found something pretty neat, a gif of a meteorite flying past a skydiver.

>>6570382
I think I heard of this on /sci/
It's really cool because it's one of the first times that a meteor has been photographed in the dark phase of it's travel (when it's not burning up).

>>6570385
There was also that one time where it was night, the guy was standing by the pool and then BOOM a fireball comes out of the back of his chest and lands in the pool. He died.

Anyone tired of this OP fag not having cut the rock open already? I know I am.

-OP

>>6564410
Looks like a bird became petrified mid-flight.

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>>6564576
>look for a noise.

>>6570393
Is he ok?

>>6571952
There's a video of it somewhere, and they recreated the event on 1000 ways to die. He was standing on a deck, leaning on wooden railing in front of a pool. The meteorite came through the middle of his chest and landed in the pool. He was not alright.

>>6572045
>many details
>matter-of-fact delivery
You're lying.

>>6572647
*rephrases*
Nah he died, I saw it happen in a video.

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>mfw that meteorite probably came from an alien planet
>mfw an alien probably touched it
>mfw you touched a little itty peice of alien dna
>mfw ur now part of the alium

>>6564410
>oh, this thread again
gtfo