Meteor? what the heck is it?

[rommelvon]

I was out detecting today in an old park, when my detector acted like it just went over a bar of silver, it pegged between copper and silver in the highest tone I have ever heard, so I dug and found this "rock" I thought at first it was lead, so I scraped it with my knife, it's a rock, very very light, about the size of a quarter, looks like a meteorite to me.....but I'm far from an expert.....what do you guys think?...oh, and a magnet willnot stick to it

 

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[BioProfessor]

Hot rock. If you can't pick up hot rocks, you won't pick up silver. Fun aren't they.

Daryl

 

[rommelvon]

Lol....darn, thought I had found a rare meteor worth millions that's the first "hot rock" I have had that strong a hit on

 

[Ed-NH]

I would agree with Daryl on hot rock. Lots of meteorites contain iron or nickel. If you got a good nickel or iron tone then that my be worth investigating. It would be great to find one though. Some of them are valuable

 

[iammetalcore]

what is a 'hot rock'?

I'm learning...bare with me!

 

[BioProfessor]

It's just a rock that makes your detector sing. Usually a pretty good signal. I would keep it. If you have your detector set up and bury the rock 4-6 inches and you can't get a signal, you won't find silver very easy. That's what I've been told.

Daryl

 

[re-tek]

take to your local science museum and have the resident rock guru look at it. some meteorites can be worth $$$.

 

[Jim West Pa]

Hi rommelvon, It looks like and fits the discription of what around here we call "plinkers".They are pieces of coal that, for lack of proper knowledge, jist didn't act right in the fire.
BTW, beautifull dog bud.
Jim

 

[Rob66]

Not a meteorite. Piece of iron ore?

 

[joya_dorado]

Looks like a chunk of aluminum from a can or something that someone tossed in a campfire. I've found two of these in granite bedrock cracks and they make a detector go nuts like they were 3 ounce gold nuggets. The heart really gets to pounding until you feel how light they are :P

 

[rommelvon]

it's a rock of some sort, no metal that I can tell....very weird

 

[BIG61AL]

it looks like some kind of ore. If it was a old meteor it would not look so grainy, it wolud look smoother.

 

[cs1969]

If it's very light it could be a piece of aluminum from a burned up satellite. Try to get it tested for aluminum.

 

[Tall-paul]

if it was a meteorite a magnet would stick to it like crazy,,, thats how alot of people hunt meteorite by dragging a large magnet around on the ground for surface ones..