[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

From: dfpens_at_comcast.net <dfpens_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 27 12:23:43 2006
Message-ID: <092720061623.13535.451AA58D000916AF000034DF22092246279C020A9F000B_at_comcast.net>

George and all:

This ball was found only a foot or two under ground and dug up with a backhoe.

It is iron, 9 1/4 inch in diameter and weighs 110 lbs. It is perfectly round. Nothing else was found around it to my knowledge.

Dave
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "G. Nicula" <treasurehunter_at_chartermi.net>
> Hi Dave, do you know how deep this object was buried?
>
> George Nicula
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dfpens_at_comcast.net>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:15 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics
>
>
> >I would like to show a picture of what a friend of a friend thinks might be
> >a meteorite but I know we are not permitted attachments in our emails to
> >the list. Any ideas of how I can post a few pictures?
> >
> > The object which this person dug up (on a 20 acre rural plot in Illinois)
> > is very round, 9 1/4 inch in diameter and weighs 110 lbs. That's pretty
> > much the density of iron, 7.87 g/cc or 492 lb/ft3. It's surface is
> > rusted, but it is nearly perfectly round. The rusted surface gives the
> > impression of thumbprints but it is simply rusted. I think it's a
> > cannonball but am not certain that old cannonballs were this size and
> > weighed 110 lbs.
> >
> > I filed off a chink to do a nickel test but so far haven't the right
> > chemicals to do one.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Dave
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