[meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May8, 2010

From: Wayne Holmes <holmesw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:43:33 -0700
Message-ID: <008501caeee6$bf0c3ee0$0200a8c0_at_Buckaroos>

Well I think were back to the train wreck shrapnel. As I remember the pieces
could fly about 4 miles.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
To: "Erik Fisler" <erikfwebb at msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day -
May8, 2010


> BTW - if anyone has a link to any meteorite in the shape of a
> perfectly flanged button, iron or stony, please send me the link or
> photo.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> On 5/8/10, Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>
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