[meteorite-list] Orionoid micrometeorites?

From: Brandon D. <b1dunovant_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:58:07 -0500
Message-ID: <q0akvg8owqtvfnn9p1d6ugju.1350946659233_at_email.android.com>

Anyone's thoughts? Open forum. Please.

I want to hear what everyone thinks.

Regards,
Brandon D.

b1dunovant at aol.com wrote:

>Hello fellow listees,
>
>A few photographs of the material collected can be viewed via my Flickr
>account by following the link below.
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/66386035 at N04/
>
>Any and all feedback welcome!!
>
>Regards,
>Brandon D.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: b1dunovant <b1dunovant at aol.com>
>To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 10:07 am
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Orionoid micrometeorites
>
>
>Hello Listees. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend.
>
>I live in the Chicago suburbs and was not able to view the Orionoid
>meteor shower due to overcast skys and horrible light polution from the
>city. Knowing this would be the case, Two weeks ago while cleaning the
>gutters on the house I rinsed the entire roof off several times so that
>the amount of shingle material left in the gutter was less and less
>each rinse, until finally there was hardly anything coming off.
>Yesterday I affixed a fine screen to the end of my drain shoots and
>collected all the material that I was rinsing off. I soaked all the
>material in anhydrous alcohol for several hours and dried then dried in
>silica gel. What I had was a mix of different shigle materials, tiny
>twigs and hopefully something of interest.
>
>I use a rare earth magnet to seperate the material into a pile of
>magnetic and a pile of non-magnetic materials. The magnetic material
>was them put in a petri dish and was sorted throught under high
>magnification for hours removing small magnetic materials in the rough
>shingle grit. After working all day doing this seperation i was left
>with stuff that left me with my jaw dropped.
>
>What i was looking at were aerodynamiclly shaped black metalic pieces,
>some perfectly round, some pancake shaped, some bars, a couple buttons
>with rollover all around such as you would see in some indochinites,
>and even severl tear-dropped pieces with unbroke tails. Under even
>higher magnification you could see surface details and even multple
>skins on some of the tear drops and bb's. Along with them there were
>also bb's that looked slightly oxidized and were an orange color I
>assume were missed during the initial roof rinses, however the the
>mass majority were shiny black and had very fine sufrface detail under
>magnification.
>
>Is there a chance these are condensents of vaporized material from the
>Orionoid shower? If not why such the high concentrations of unoxidized
>aeroforms so dilicate I doubt would still have such perfect tails after
>my rigourous rinsing ahead of the meteor shower.
>
>
>Email me off list if your interested in pictures of what I've described
>above. I would love to hear some feedback from the community! I should
>have some pictures up for the masses to view shortly.
>
>Regards,
>
>Brandon D.
>IMCA# 9312
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