[meteorite-list] Your opinion, please...
From: magellon_at_earthlink.net <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:30 2004 Message-ID: <3C977D26.1DDD8C3A_at_earthlink.net> --------------239FC07CA858179313CAA249 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An eBayer saw my meteorwrong page and asked my opinion of the following. I discreetly bow to those more experienced: ( the last two picts are small, sorry) Top Bottom Side Here is her story, "I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness area. It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that district. I have done quite a bit of fossicking for sapphires & rubies and seen nothing like this. The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying granidiorite and some granitic areas. This may be terrestrial iron, but if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from the volcano?, as it is oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks of similar size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic, but not considerably so. Size is 2.5" x 1.5" x 1". Incidentally, there is no industry within several hundred kilometres, and no railway line, so it would not be smelter ore or slag." I will pass on to her you expert observations. Thanks, Ken Newton #9632 --------------239FC07CA858179313CAA249 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> An eBayer saw my meteorwrong page and asked my opinion of the following. <br>I discreetly bow to those more experienced: ( the last two picts are small, sorry) <br> <a href="http://www.bay-town.com/members/magellon/misc/aussi1.jpg">Top</a> <br> <a href="http://www.bay-town.com/members/magellon/misc/aussi2.jpg">Bottom</a> <br> <a href="http://www.bay-town.com/members/magellon/misc/aussi3.jpg">Side</a> <p>Here is her story, <br>"I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness area. It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that district. I have done quite a bit of fossicking for sapphires & rubies and seen nothing like this. The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying granidiorite and some granitic areas. This may be terrestrial iron, but if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from the volcano?, as it is oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks of similar size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic, but not considerably so. Size is 2.5" x 1.5" x 1". Incidentally, there is no industry within several hundred kilometres, and no railway line, so it would not be smelter ore or slag." <p>I will pass on to her you expert observations. <br>Thanks, <br>Ken Newton <br>#9632</html> --------------239FC07CA858179313CAA249-- Received on Tue 19 Mar 2002 01:02:14 PM PST |
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