They look like micro-meteorites to me....which I am told Are always falling. Michael
On 10/22/12 3:58 PM, "Brandon D." <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone's thoughts? Open forum. Please. > > I want to hear what everyone thinks. > > Regards, > Brandon D. > > [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello fellow listees, >> >> A few photographs of the material collected can be viewed via my Flickr >> account by following the link below. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/66386035@N04/ >> >> Any and all feedback welcome!! >> >> Regards, >> Brandon D. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: b1dunovant <[email protected]> >> To: meteorite-list <[email protected]> >> Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 10:07 am >> Subject: [meteorite-list] Orionoid micrometeorites >> >> >> Hello Listees. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. >> >> I live in the Chicago suburbs and was not able to view the Orionoid >> meteor shower due to overcast skys and horrible light polution from the >> city. Knowing this would be the case, Two weeks ago while cleaning the >> gutters on the house I rinsed the entire roof off several times so that >> the amount of shingle material left in the gutter was less and less >> each rinse, until finally there was hardly anything coming off. >> Yesterday I affixed a fine screen to the end of my drain shoots and >> collected all the material that I was rinsing off. I soaked all the >> material in anhydrous alcohol for several hours and dried then dried in >> silica gel. What I had was a mix of different shigle materials, tiny >> twigs and hopefully something of interest. >> >> I use a rare earth magnet to seperate the material into a pile of >> magnetic and a pile of non-magnetic materials. The magnetic material >> was them put in a petri dish and was sorted throught under high >> magnification for hours removing small magnetic materials in the rough >> shingle grit. After working all day doing this seperation i was left >> with stuff that left me with my jaw dropped. >> >> What i was looking at were aerodynamiclly shaped black metalic pieces, >> some perfectly round, some pancake shaped, some bars, a couple buttons >> with rollover all around such as you would see in some indochinites, >> and even severl tear-dropped pieces with unbroke tails. Under even >> higher magnification you could see surface details and even multple >> skins on some of the tear drops and bb's. Along with them there were >> also bb's that looked slightly oxidized and were an orange color I >> assume were missed during the initial roof rinses, however the the >> mass majority were shiny black and had very fine sufrface detail under >> magnification. >> >> Is there a chance these are condensents of vaporized material from the >> Orionoid shower? If not why such the high concentrations of unoxidized >> aeroforms so dilicate I doubt would still have such perfect tails after >> my rigourous rinsing ahead of the meteor shower. >> >> >> Email me off list if your interested in pictures of what I've described >> above. I would love to hear some feedback from the community! I should >> have some pictures up for the masses to view shortly. >> >> Regards, >> >> Brandon D. >> IMCA# 9312 >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
