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[Spicer]

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Welcome to Treasurenet, it helps if you post comment content with pictures, what do you think we are looking at?

 

[galenrog]

It appears to be a wet rock.

Time for more coffee.

 

[Chiltepin]

Please don't say that is a Stalagmite.

 

[Spicer]

Welcome to Treasurenet, it helps if you post content with pictures, what do you think we are looking at?

Please don't say that is a Stalagmite.

No sir not hardly in fact

Please don't say that is a Stalagmite.

Achondrite

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Sorry, not finding any examples of achondrite that match your rock.

Achondrites – Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

 

[galenrog]

Sorry, not an achondrite, or any kind of meteorite, based on images provided. Pick up a few handbooks. If nothing else, submit it for authentication.

Time for more coffee.

 

[Spicer]

Sorry, not finding any examples

Sorry, not an achondrite, or any kind of meteorite, based on images provided. Pick up a few handbooks. If nothing else, submit it for authentication.

Time for more coffee.

of achondrite that match your rock.

Achondrites – Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

This isn't wet it's completely dry and what's your suggestion as to sending a sample? Any place in particular or? Thank you🙏 sir.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Why do you think it is a meteorite?

 

[Spicer]

Why do you think it is a meteorite?

It seems that the previous owner of our new house was a retired Army (LTC) that had interests in specific polar localities. Upon his passing the wife literally left everything behind and moved to an also specific location that seemed rather strange in hindsight. But nonetheless I came into this specimen and I could not figure out what it is. The closest match I could find was a meteorite that the Smithsonian Institute currently holds and is supposedly the only one to exist. I'm not saying definitively that it's the same but it's as close as I've seen on a few levels. The specimen I have looked exactly like the Smithsonian before I decided to bring it from a rough state to a polished state. But same crystaline structure etc everything matches up...so idk what to think or do. Help plz🙏

 

[Spicer]

It seems that the previous owner of our new house was a retired Army (LTC) that had interests in specific polar localities. Upon his passing the wife literally left everything behind and moved to an also specific location that seemed rather strange in hindsight. But nonetheless I came into this specimen and I could not figure out what it is. The closest match I could find was a meteorite that the Smithsonian Institute currently holds and is supposedly the only one to exist. I'm not saying definitively that it's the same but it's as close as I've seen on a few levels. The specimen I have looked exactly like the Smithsonian before I decided to bring it from a rough state to a polished state. But same crystaline structure etc everything matches up...so idk what to think or do. Help plz🙏

WAIT...IS THIS PAINITE😲

 

[blauer]

This isn't wet it's completely dry and what's your suggestion as to sending a sample? Any place in particular or? Thank you🙏 sir.

14 bad pics. That helps. Look like chalcedony.

 

[Spicer]

WAIT...IS THIS PAINITE😲

Heres a piece of this as jewelery

 

[Spicer]

14 bad pics. That helps. Look like chalcedony.

Glasses 🤓 on? Insulting hater you. I hope you have a fantastic day!

 

[Red-Coat]

It seems that the previous owner of our new house was a retired Army (LTC) that had interests in specific polar localities. Upon his passing the wife literally left everything behind and moved to an also specific location that seemed rather strange in hindsight. But nonetheless I came into this specimen and I could not figure out what it is. The closest match I could find was a meteorite that the Smithsonian Institute currently holds and is supposedly the only one to exist. I'm not saying definitively that it's the same but it's as close as I've seen on a few levels. The specimen I have looked exactly like the Smithsonian before I decided to bring it from a rough state to a polished state. But same crystaline structure etc everything matches up...so idk what to think or do. Help plz🙏

Your rock has no features that could be said to define it as a meteorite. Please provide a link to the Smithsonian specimen which you think it resembles. Note that visual appearance of most achondrites is usually no different from common terrestrial rocks since they formed in similar ways. The only way to distinguish them is usually from expert chemical or petrological analysis (or because they were witnessed falls). An amateur cannot perform these kinds of tests but may be able to determine the presence of quartz crystals as a negative indicator. Crystalline quartz does not occur in meteorites (of any type), except very rarely in certain types, as microscopic amounts that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

I cannot say what your rock might be just from photographs (and especially since you cannot even be sure of its geographic origin) but, frankly, I see nothing at all about it which is unusual for a terrestrial rock, nor anything which would warrant any special interest.

WAIT...IS THIS PAINITE😲

Painite is an extremely rare mineral and has no known localities outside a very small region of Myanmar in Asia.

 

[blauer]

Glasses 🤓 on? Insulting hater you. I hope you have a fantastic day!

You have no idea. Identification requires a streak test, hardness test, and possible locality of specimen. Not a lot of mediocre pics and conjecture. Derp.

 

[ARC]

Petrified dinosaur booger.

 

[Spicer]

You have no idea. Identification requires a streak test, hardness test, and possible locality of specimen. Not a lot of mediocre pics and conjecture. Derp.

Of course I know these things but without definitive lab results all those mean nothing to me only speculative jive talk. Now based on my home tests including all you mentioned has allowed me to narrow my personal ideas about it which I'm on the fence about because the localities of both Antarctica and Myanmar are 2 places of which my mentor/previous owner of this specimen has been affiliated with amongst many others. So I'm just trying to gather feedback during this time while samples are in the lab for classification. So yes, trying to classify any complex minerals with only photos is pointless without physically being there. This is only a feedback post for my own entertainment.

 

[Red-Coat]

Of course I know these things but without definitive lab results all those mean nothing to me only speculative jive talk. Now based on my home tests including all you mentioned has allowed me to narrow my personal ideas about it which I'm on the fence about because the localities of both Antarctica and Myanmar are 2 places of which my mentor/previous owner of this specimen has been affiliated with amongst many others. So I'm just trying to gather feedback during this time while samples are in the lab for classification. So yes, trying to classify any complex minerals with only photos is pointless without physically being there. This is only a feedback post for my own entertainment.

mmmkay....so:

You agree that just looking at pictures without having a location or test results for the specimen is a pointless excercise.

You have conducted some tests of your own but didn't say what tests, nor provide any results.

You have samples "in the lab for classification" but haven't said which lab, what accreditation or areas of expertise it has, nor what tests it is actually conducting.

You ignored my invitation to provide a link to the extremely rare achondrite meteorite specimen in the Smithsonian that you think it resembles.


What, exactly, did you expect the membership here to provide in the way of help based on the very little you have told us?

If you are still wedded to the possibility of it being a meteorite, I would recommend New England Meteoritical Services as a test laboratory (It's not free, but the cost is small) as I detailed at this link:

Meteorite verification

Recently found a 59.3 kilogram meteorite. Sent in to Wyoming university were they verified. Provided the lab paperwork on it and verified its a meteorite. They did say that for them it is enough to send it out for further testing at places more versed in this. Is there places specializing in...

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In my opinion, you would be wasting $30 but at least you would then have a definitive yes/no to the meteorite question. Note that, although NEMS will be able to say whether or not you have a meteorite, they won't necessarily be able to say what it is if not a meteorite. That's why it's important to choose your laboratory carefully to understand what areas of expertise they have and what tests they are able to conduct to get to a definitive ID.