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To: Dallas59

That rock he’s holding doesn’t look like a meteorite.


6 posted on 07/19/2010 6:14:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
That rock looks like a carbonaceous chondrite. There are at least 5 different subgroups of just that kind.

You are probably thinking they should all look like nickel-iron or stony meteorites, but they don't. I had one that looked pretty much like slag ~ found it in an old Indian campsite near home ~ everything was gone but their stone work, and the de riguerre hunk of meteorite.

18 posted on 07/19/2010 6:33:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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