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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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To: muawiyah

Actually I’m wondering why there doesn’t appear to be any charring.

The possible explanation I can come up with would be that it was the inner part of a rock that exploded in the atmosphere and managed to survive till its speed was slow enough that it wouldn’t cook.


24 posted on 07/19/2010 6:38:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: muawiyah

“looks like a carbonaceous chondrite”

Sounds like something you’d have lanced.


30 posted on 07/19/2010 7:10:05 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: muawiyah

And meteorite that just fell would have a fusion crust including a carbonaceous chondrite. That is not a meteorite he is holding in that picture.


51 posted on 07/20/2010 11:32:35 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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