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OK, I have a new way of posting photos, I think, and it doesn't require using Geocities, so this should be good. The following stone, basically teardrop shaped, 1 cm X 1 cm X 0.6 cm, weighing in the neighborhood of 1 g was found by me in a very desertic area, in a water runoff that probably gets rained on once a year. It sticks to my factory poor speaker magnet, and jumps up to a stronger magnet with a click. The surface has a distinctly rusty coating, though it appears that a blackened layer may be under. It initially leaves a light rust colored streak but that seems to stop completely as the outer oxidation is removed. I took it to the side of the cutting surface of a home ceramic tile cutting wheel to make a window, which was crude, so I smoothed with sandpaper. Neither before or after the sanding was I able to see any green crystalline evidence, but the sanding brought out shiny metal, intersperced in a gray matrix. Some rust remains on the window as I didn't want to shave the pebble away. Whether there are chondrules in the face I don't know, there appear darker spots, and I'd appreciate it if the list can tell me if they see fusion crust, which I think I see, but...I have no reference collectings and resident experts around. I am pretty convinced that this one (of my 17 candidates is a meteorite, but I could be biased. 15 of the other 16 are already eliminated. Please give me a hand on this one. The both ppictures are of the smae stone, at thelimits of my digital camera resolution. The true color is in between the bright and shadow shot. Is it? Saludos & Thanks Doug zר�+^�+-����x%��Lzר�+^�+-��^���yǧ���r����� 0����+-���������+-�w��g�z���b�
