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

From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:45:37 -0500
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Considering that it is light like aluminum, maybe it is a piece of
melted aluminum?

Why try to make things more complicated than they are?

Mike Fowler
Chicago



> 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
>
> http://tr.im/sUQk
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