Pretty please your expertise....

Lorimae

Tenderfoot
Jun 9, 2021
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SLC, Utah
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If I have one sure....
I am the detector
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I found this in Utah.
It passes the at home tests.
Please let me know what you think I have . IMG_20210609_151011117.jpg
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Certainly looks like fusion crust, to me, but then I only know
what I've learned here from others.

Could you take some sharper images with another camera or
better phone camera?
 

Welcome to Tnet

Going from your pictures alone, I don't see anything which would enable this to be determined as a meteorite.

What exactly does "it passes the at home tests" mean? You've told us absolutely nothing about the properties of your find, nor the circumstances of where/how you found it. Utah is a big place.
 

I apologize. I am very uneducated on the subject of metorites and just need exactly what you asked for which is some direction or where to start.
I'm happy to answer all questions.
 

Some facts ....
I have NOT
obtained a chemical analysis for any elements.

It DOES contain a shiny metal like star pattern inside and it DOES attract a cheap ceramic magnet.

It ISvery heavy.
Weighs near 10 lbs or more.

It WAS found near a water.
The ground around it for some strange reason looked gold

I've had a gemologist who seen it who was baffled by it's perfect star pattern design on the inside.

A guy who buys rocks and metorites here local said it is not a metorite and said feldspar... I've looked at feldspar online and don't agree.
I'm open-minded wanting to learn what this is.
I'm still looking at images....

I know where others are near by the one I found lodged into the ground.
Maybe there is what I call the mother load which is huge one just like the little one I have wich is about 4inches thick and 6 inches long .

After using a Dremel to see how it would polish with this silver cleaner it did something strange . A month later when getting into the cleaner the container was filled with angel like hair crystals all through it were growing everywhere throughout the container.
I don't know.... it was just frkn weird.....

It DOES have a crust of some kind only on one side. This crust side is the top of the wedge where it is flat. The other side goes into a point or a wedge.

It ISof a wedge shape.
 

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