[meteorite-list] New American Iron find

From: Craig Moody <meteoritesnorth_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:40:58 -0500
Message-ID: <SNT133-W35B51C5E631B333D9014F7CC2F0_at_phx.gbl>

Hi Larry
Thanks for the input. Yes, I too initially thougt something looked wrong, until I saw the etch. As I was admiring my handiwork, I noticed that along the outer egde of the etched window, there seemed to be a very thin boarder of, what looks to be, re-crystalized metal. It is possible that it was re-heated at one time, but not enough to do any significant damage. This might explain the unusual appearance.
All the best, Craig
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> To: meteoritesnorth at hotmail.ca
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New American Iron find
> From: thetoprok at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:24:36 -0500
>
> Hi CraIg,
>
> This would be exciting if it is indeed a meteorite, but something
> doesn't look right to me. I sure hope I'm wrong!
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Larry Atkins
>
> IMCA # 1941
> Ebay alienrockfarm
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Moody <meteoritesnorth at hotmail.ca>
> To: MetList <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 11:16 pm
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New American Iron find
>
>
>
>
> Hello Listees, and a belated Happy New Year.
> Recently, I received a rather unusual 600 gram 'rock' from a friend on
> Geoff
> Notkin's Club Space Rock. He sent it to me so that I could have a
> closer look
> at it and give him my opinion. He had sanded a small area and noticed
> that was
> metallic. METALLIC?? The thing is solid iron! I filed that area flat,
> and
> polished it up and took the Nitol to it. (It was initially found in
> Elmore Co.
> Alabama around 1920). After seeing a Widmanstatten structure appear, I
> felt like
> a kid at Christmas! The pattern seems to be that of a medium
> Octahedrite,
> similar to that of a Campo, but smaller. It is now going to be sent to
> Dr. John
> Wasson via Geoff Notkin and Dr. Laurence Garvie for classification.
> Here is the link to my facebook album for it. Any comments would be
> most
> welcome.
> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151192014720706.437610.632430705&type=1&l=24ed65fbf7
> Cheers all!
> Craig
> IMCA 6276
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Received on Sun 13 Jan 2013 01:40:58 AM PST