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Old 09-18-2010, 07:33 AM  
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pictures please
Allende (This rock predates our own sun. It is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old and is among the oldest things you can touch.) It is classified a carbonaceous chondrite (stone):


Gao/Guenie, H5 Chondrite, A nice stony-iron:


Iron from Odessa, Texas:
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Old 09-18-2010, 07:35 AM  
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Tatahouine fragment, believed to originate from the asteroid Vesta:


Moldavite sample - meteorite impact glass:


I've got a bunch more, just no images handy.
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Old 09-18-2010, 07:58 AM  
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That's pretty interesting! I wonder how many get duped buying what they believe is space matter when in fact is just rocks? Is there a way to test them?
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Old 09-18-2010, 08:07 AM  
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That's pretty interesting! I wonder how many get duped buying what they believe is space matter when in fact is just rocks? Is there a way to test them?
Yes, the University of Arizona does testing for a fee. They will take a sample, run it through a spectrometer and analyze the compounds. The pictures don't really do them justice: when you know what to look for, it's pretty easy to distinguish between an unremarkable rock and space junk most of the time. But it is possible to mistake slag or other terrestrial rocks for meteorites.

Many samples I have are slices showing Widmanstatten patterns which are unique to meteorites. Stony-irons and pallasites are pretty unique, too.
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Old 09-18-2010, 08:19 AM  
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I use to collect rocks and while shopping in some remote town, I found a piece of rock which was advertised as a piece of a meteorite and bought it, but I'm not sure if I was duped or not.
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A few things that I've collected...



I was at this game...



Autographed by the "Big Three".....any takers?

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Old 09-19-2010, 05:16 PM  
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holy crap i thought that mit was on the ground and HUGE lol
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holy crap i thought that mit was on the ground and HUGE lol
lol...No, but ballplayers today have got it good!

Ballplayers were tough "back in the day"...
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lol...No, but ballplayers today have got it good!

Ballplayers were tough "back in the day"...

Have you ever checked out some of the vintage hockey goalie equipment? Talk about tough...
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