rockpassion
Greenie
- Oct 5, 2024
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i have dug up this piece of metal 1 meter deep. it has no sand stuck to it. is it a iron meteorite fragment?
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what is the difference between a iron meteorite scrapnell and manmade scrapnell??It has no obvious features to suggest it's meteoritic. I assume you have confirmed it to be attracted to a magnet. If the attraction is very strong, it's likely to be something man-made. It might be a piece of shrapnel.
One is a man made object made from refined iron and/or other metals. The other is a naturally occurring space rock fragment that contains elemental iron.what is the difference between a iron meteorite scrapnell and manmade scrapnell??
yes i understand that. but how can you tell the diffence just by by looking at the scrapnell pieces side by side see eample of sitkote aline scrapnell.One is a man made object made from refined iron and/or other metals. The other is a naturally occurring space rock fragment that contains elemental iron.
it is strongly atracting a magnet, and after looking with my 10x loupe i can see what look like crystal faces or lighter colored angular metal crystal plains. by the way both photo i posted as example are meteorite from the webbThe Sikhote-Alin piece you're showing exhibits flow lines as melt features from its atmospheric passage. Your chunk of whatever has no such features. It just looks broke/fractured.
You didn't answer the question about its degree of attraction to a magnet.
it is strongly atracting a magnet, and after looking with my 10x loupe i can see what look like crystal faces or lighter colored angular metal crystal plains. by the way both photo i posted as example are meteorite from the webb
the likelyhood that it is a meteorite is very small. only an xrf test will prove or disprove it. but thanks for the heads up.The second of those two pictures is a Canyon Diablo meteorite specimen. It doesn't exhibit flow lines, but does exhibit some aerodynamic sculpting.
I can only comment on what I can see, but your chunk exhibits neither of those kinds of features.
If you think you can see kamacite/taenite crystallisation, window the specimen and see if it has a Widmanstatten pattern. I provided details on how to proceed on a previous thread here:
2 meteorites?
2 meteorites? roughly 5cm in diameter each . Extremely magnetic found in the desert Saudi Arabia, both are positive to the nickel test. Both are have a strong metallic shine when cut. Very dense. One of the meteorites looks like it has olivine veins in it. Are these meteorites and if so...www.treasurenet.com