I found this rock or meteorite is it martian basalt?

[obieblue]

okday what and does this look like a meteorite, it is split in two. It has a crystal sandy texture inside surrounded by what looks like it was turned into molted glass and hurtled through the atmosphere. I could swear it looks like it has flow lines and thumb prints on a fusion crust. the thick dark ring is the impact that sent it from the moon or Mars and small this dark fusion crust is the shell around it from when it enters Earth's atmosphere?

 

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[Ghost of Forrest]

okday what and does this look like a meteorite, it is split in two. It has a crystal sandy texture inside surrounded by what looks like it was turned into molted glass and hurtled through the atmosphere. I could swear it looks like it has flow lines and thumb prints on a fusion crust. the thick dark ring is the impact that sent it from the moon or Mars and small this dark fusion crust is the shell around it from when it enters Earth's atmosphere?

It looks like a river rock that lined a campfire ring.

 

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It's cool whatever it is.

 

[obieblue]

It looks like a river rock that lined a campfire ring.

It would of been a very fast camp fire because a flange with flow lines appear on its exterior surface could it be a martian agutine basalt meteorite

 

[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet.

No, it's not a meteorite. That would be a very atypical appearance. There's also nothing about it which suggests it's basaltic.

It appears to be a hematite concretion, formed in sedimentary deposits where iron-rich groundwater has been percolating. These are from the Navajo Sandstone in Utah (where they're popularly known as "Moqui marbles"), but you'll find them in many sedimentary deposits where iron-rich groundwater has been percolating:



Interestingly, these kinds of concretions have also been observed on the surface of Mars in significant quantities at particular locations and are one of the geological indicators for Mars once having had flowing water (also iron-rich). They've been dubbed "Martian blueberries", but those on Mars are small and don't reach us as meteorites.