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

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:15:13 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY141-W15DDA180D943ECBFC400D1F8F70_at_phx.gbl>

Hi, Erik,
 
Using the photo, I would have put money down on a small sewing/tent/tarp grommet, too!
Even the weight is close to those I use.
 
I am always amazed at the variety of meteorites.
I would appreciate seeing photos of your flat and odd shaped irons.
While they sound to be common to you, I haven't seen anything in an iron more uniform than a very irregular SA.
 
I would also like to hear or read a description of how this donut was formed.
You say it wouldn't have enough time to orient, but it appears to have roll-over rims...
 
Cheers,
Pete


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> From: erikfwebb at msn.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 09:43:37 -0700
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010
>
>
> 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 wrote:
>>> Why would you even think that's a meteorite? I think Darren called it.
>>> It's a snap fastener.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil Whitmer
>>>
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