[meteorite-list] Orionoid micrometeorites?

From: Brandon D. <b1dunovant_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:56:51 -0500
Message-ID: <7hblopayd683qrh6g8l8r2m4.1350953811825_at_email.android.com>

Hi mike.

Air quality standard put.in place in the last decade dictate that fly ash be trapped in the stack to eliminate this type of air polution. Even so, those particles which I quote "generally condense as spheroids 0.5-300nm round" are all but collected before they even leave the stack. Even if that was a good possibility, how does it explain the forms exhibited which essentially look like splashform-type tektites?

Brandon

Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Brandon,
>
>I think Chris made some good points. Depending on your location, the
>air may be filled with particulate junk from industry. Generally
>speaking, if your area has chronic problems with poor atmospheric
>transparency, then you will likely be exposed to numerous sources of
>particulates.
>
>Some of the specimens do resemble micro-meteorites, but even at this
>apparent tiny size, they are still much larger than the majority of
>micro-meteorites I have seen or read about.
>
>If they are not micrometeorites, then it's a glaring example of how
>much junk and pollution is pumped into the environment by factories,
>refineries, foundries, and industry. Just imagine how much this crap
>we eat, drink, and breathe!
>
>Regardless of what they are, they are interesting and it would be fun
>(and informative) to have them analyzed and see what exactly they are
>made of. Apparently we have this stuff falling on us all the time,
>and it would be nice to know what the heck it is. Is it toxic?
>
>Best regards,
>
>MikeG
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>On 10/22/12, 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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