[meteorite-list] Orionoid micrometeorites?

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:04:47 -0700
Message-ID: <CCAB2D2F.29404%mlblood_at_cox.net>

They look like micro-meteorites to me....which I am told
Are always falling.
Michael


On 10/22/12 3:58 PM, "Brandon D." <b1dunovant at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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