I just wished I could give you both a group hug! I really love it when a plan comes together!
Oh, and I went hunting for half an hour today, there was no snow or wind...only warm sunshine. Still contemplating cretaceously weathered ironized waste rock.
Best,
Dave F.
Robert Verish wrote:
Well said, Rob!
I'll be saving this post...
... given the number of people that come to me
[repeatedly] with their "meteorite hopefuls", I'll be
using it over, and over, again...
;-)
Bob V.
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[meteorite-list] It's not a meteorite -- move on Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:29:40 -0800
Greetings Mohamed and List,
Mohamed opined:
The little spheroids do not have any layers inside,when Ibreak one of them I get a reflecting crystallinesurface,milky white to gray in color(pyroxenes as Ibelieve). InFine, it's not an oolite. My guess was based onaddition to that they are not affected at all by a dilluted HCl.
similar
morphology, but the scale is wrong. Your spheroids
are
too large. The point is that your ROCK is clearly not
a
meteorite -- not even remotely close to looking like
one.
As others have pointed out before, you do not seem to
be
making much progress toward finding meteorites despite
spending what appears to be a fair amount of time
looking
for them. Oman has plenty of meteorites, so that's
not
the problem. Your problem is that you don't have a
good
search image -- you keep gravitating to the same types
of
terrestrial rocks, and spending an inordinate amount
of
time (yours and ours) trying to convince yourself that
they
just might be meteorites. You'll never find one this
way.
My advice? Buy a variety of common Dhofar meteorites
off
eBay or from one of the many fine dealers in the world
and
really LOOK at them. Study their texture, their
shapes,
their heft, their color. Memorize them. Then take
them
with you to a place where Oman meteorites have been
found
before. Preferably choose a place that isn't littered
with dark rocks and start searching. Every 15 minutes
or
so, refresh your memory of what you're looking for by
staring at your *known* meteorites. It is easy to
diverge
from your search image when you're staring at lots of
terrestrial rocks. Remember, meteorites are rare. Your
only chance at finding them is by covering LOTS of
area.
That's why it's important to choose your area wisely,
and
not waste valuable time on rocks that only
superficially
resemble meteorites.
A final bit of advice: there are a lot more
meteorites
that are smaller than 100 grams than larger. Adjust
your
search image to be realistic with those statistics.
When all is said and done, I think your experience
will
be that your first meteorite will find YOU rather than
the other way around. Some day you'll just be walking
along, searching, your mind wandering from one random
thought to another, and VOILA! You'll stop dead in
your tracks. Your heart will jump. You won't have to
make excuses for it or talk yourself into it -- you'll
know it's a meteorite before you even touch it...
--Rob
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