Hello list,I do know of this phenomena,this kind of material is spread all over the east coast of the U.S,I collect it regularly..I just today picked up a chunk of black fused looking rock in a local park..on it were these glass spheres,metal? spheres,i've samples from all over.I do wonder at times about their origin,but have come to the conclusion:Impact related material...strewn all over the east coast..from at least W.V., down to Fl.I see them all the time under my 'scope,I've found them in/on material from as deep as 65 ft,in a mine in central FL.I've found them in my yard in FL,here in my yard in GA,their seemingly everywhere.I can't provide pics..as I've no way to adapt a cam to my 'scope yet..but I will one day.....my advice...buy a good rock and gem 'scope..and look at everything you buy/find/pickup,under it..you'll be amazed at what you see!...Best, Kevin
From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:41:09 -0600
>>Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
>>plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
>>from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
>>and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
>>dust on the bottom of the pool...
>
>Have you actually done this? Because the sort of micron-scale dust
>produced by meteors has an atmospheric lifetime measured in months.
>While there's certainly meteor dust falling all the time, you won't
>find any in the morning from the previous night's shower.
>
>Chris
>
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling K. Webb"
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>To: "Mike Groetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite List"
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>Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Magnetite/Glass Meteorite Balls
>
>
>>Hi, Mike, List,
>>
>> The Seller believes this material to be "Jurassic"
>>in origin because he finds it in sand produced from
>>Jurassic strata, but while he's wrong about that, he
>>may be right about it being meteoritic!
>>
>> When a meteorite ablates in the atmosphere, the
>>majority of its mass is turned into a dust of tiny fused
>>droplets. Eventually, that meteoritic dust will fall to
>>earth; some will land on water, sink to the stream and
>>lake bottoms and become incorporated in the sand
>>(or mud).
>>
>> Meteoritic dust or cosmic dust: put a flat white
>>plastic pan or small "splash pool" of water out away
>>from the trees on the peak night of a meteor shower,
>>and in the morning you will be rewarded with a black
>>dust on the bottom of the pool, that could well be
>>interpreted as:
>> "Meteorite balls, glass balls, zircons, garnet, magnetite
>>and some other minerals... The balls are magnetite balls.
>>Somethimes with the white transparents glass balls you
>>can find some green balls that look like moldavite or
>>olivina fused samples..."
>>
>> Much more fun to collect your own than to
>>buy it on eBay, though.
>>
>>
>>Sterling K. Webb
>
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