See the field photo at the bottom of the MetBull writeup:
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=81448
Yes, I suppose it could be faked.
There are two ordinary chondrites reported from nearby, 6 km and 13 km away.
Randy Korotev
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I have been contacted and sent photos by a person who has likely found another
12-lb "stone" of the Apache Junction iron in Apache Junction AZ.
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=54566
She wants to sell it.
If you want to negotiate with her, I'll send her email.
Please contact
Someone just called this handy device to my attention, asking me if it might be
useful.
https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Space-Rocks-1-0-Meteorite/dp/B004WK985W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Good thing it's out of stock. The reviews are good, though.
Randy Korotev
I send them this link. Doesn't usually help, though.
https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/thud/
From: Meteorite-list on behalf of
tracy latimer via Meteorite-list
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 14:28
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
I just received an email from a farmer with an Admire, Kansas, snail-mail
address. He asks:
"A glass and metal laced boulder on my farm, sets on a pocket of powdered rock
that contains hundreds of spherules per teaspoon of dust. Could this boulder
be a piece of crust from the ill-fated young
If there has been discussion of this on the List, I missed it
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
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Randy L. Korotev
Research Professor, retired
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Washington University in Saint Louis
A guy sent me these photos.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qcnzxol29ypwi4q/AAAWTbYOJh-LTf1L7JRFaMTsa?dl=0
My guess: space junk. He'd be happy to sell it because he's got $1000
deductible on his home owner's insurance.
Contact me off line if you want his e-mail address.
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