Hello Bill and List, I believe a lot of new or rare meteorites are over looked! The guy checking meteorites at ASU (I think, the one in temp?) checks possible meteorites with a magnet, if it does not pass that, it goes no further! Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier <>< Yea, that's right, The proudest member of the IMCA # 6168 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 2:52 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] streak test
> Hi all, > > If the average person, thinking they might have found a meteorite, performs a > streak test with a dirty rock (prospective meteorite) isn't there going to be > a streak from the native crud left on the tile even if it is a meteorite? > Don't weathered irons leave a streak from all the oxide? I've streak tested > my specimens and the results are as they should be other than one really > funky nwa that leaves the sightest hint of color. I really hate to think that > someone might find the real thing and discard it because some dirt caused a > streak. Until I learned a few basics that suggest how to clean a meteorite, I > probably would have just washed one in the dreaded chlorinated tap water. I > wash in MEK. I do this to eliminate all the tar coated limestone rocks, Park > Forest you know has a lot. Some of them are magnetic and can really throw you > and now as new parking areas are re-coated there are pks that really have > been contaminated with tar! > > Bill Kieskowski > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
