[meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 13:29:33 -0400
Message-ID: <l2ye51421551005081029lc11cbc09yb187ca3801775b2c_at_mail.gmail.com>

Manmade stuff ends up in weird places. I stand by my assessment until
I see a chemical analysis and verdict from a respectable authority on
meteorites. ;)

BTW - I know plenty about metal detectors and have spent years
wandering the wilds. I've run across some odd stuff out in the middle
of nowhere in places where there were no traces of human activity. So
the location has nothing to do with whether it's a meteorite or not.
I guess a cannonball found in the Franconia strewnfield must be a
meteorite because it was found in a known meteorite strewnfield.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 5/8/10, Erik Fisler <erikfwebb at msn.com> wrote:
>
> It's a Franconia Iron. When you've been out in the field and walked two and
> a half miles into some inhospitable desert and you can only find them within
> the strewn field then you know... I have plenty of dumb bells and funky "U"
> shaped irons but most of them are flat and corn flake looking because they
> pealed out of the second or third break up of the meteorite and did not have
> enough time to orient. They don't get very big because most of them were
> only the size of peas or smaller when they peeled out of the meteorites in
> flight.
>
> It's easy to sit in your rolly chair and say meteor wrong. I suggest you
> spend 50 hours learning to properly use a quality metal detector and then
> walk two miles from the rail road tracks(as a crow flies lol) and stay out
> there for 12 hours to get your head right. Then tell me the stuff you found
> was man made LMAO!!!
>
> MANMADE!!! MANMADE!!! hahahaha
>
> [Erik]
>
>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:11:42 -0400
>> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
>> To: joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com
>> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day -
>> May 8, 2010
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Flanged buttons of this type are limited to tektites, which undergo a
>> vastly different formation process than meteorites. There are no
>> meteorite flanged buttons, or if there is, I have not seen in during
>> my experience of handling thousands of meteorites and seeing photos of
>> tens of thousands of meteorites. Nor I have ever read anything in the
>> scientific literature that allows for meteorite flanged buttons of
>> this type.
>>
>> This is either a meteorwrong, or a million-dollar find of the century
>> - I'd bet on the former.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> MikeG
>>
>>
>> On 5/8/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why would you even think that's a meteorite? I think Darren called it.
>>> It's a snap fastener.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil Whitmer
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> Visit the Archives at
>>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites
>> http://www.galactic-stone.com
>> http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ______________________________________________
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
> ______________________________________________
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites
http://www.galactic-stone.com
http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone
------------------------------------------------------------

Received on Sat 08 May 2010 01:29:33 PM PDT