[meteorite-list] Meteorite-wrong pics

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Sep 27 19:01:14 2006
Message-ID: <092720061840.820.451AC59F0000DBB10000033421602807480299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

How about one of those old wrecking balls used to demolish buildings?

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: dfpens_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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Received on Wed 27 Sep 2006 02:40:32 PM PDT