[meteorite-list] Is this Irelands first meteorite find? pictures

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:38:45 -0400
Message-ID: <e51421550907180738l7e88becdja6d419abe084e747_at_mail.gmail.com>

The photo caption says it's not magnetic and is very light. So
chances are (combined with the appearance), it's not a meteorite.
It's an interesting little piece of metal that probably has a good
story behind it, but I think it's terrestrial.

Best regards,

MikeG



On 7/18/09, Matt Morgan <mail at mhmeteorites.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim
> Interesting object. It reminds me of a piece of bomb shrapnel. It does not
> appear to be a meteorite, but maybe you could remove a tiny piece and do a
> nickel test.
> Matt
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> Hello list members
> I've been contacted by a fellow in Dublin who found this
> object years ago and has always been curious about whether it might be
> a meteorite.He states that it is about 2cms long(roughly 7/8 of an inch
> for our non-metric list members) and is light like aluminium.I have
> asked him whether it was magnetic and he said 'no' .
> Of course I should have asked him whether it was
> attracted to a magnet, so I did and waiting for his reponse now.Because
> this object is so small I've advised him that the best way to test may
> be to file down a flat area and apply nitol to see if a pattern emerges.
> Of course even this isn't 100% if it happened to be an ataxite.
> I told him I thought it was unlikely that the object was
> meteoritic in nature but that I would pose the question to the
> meteorite list and see what the experts think.So if you could please
> take a look and offer your opinions I'd appreciate it.
> Jim Brady
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