BTW - if anyone has a link to any meteorite in the shape of a perfectly flanged button, iron or stony, please send me the link or photo.
Best regards, MikeG On 5/8/10, Galactic Stone & Ironworks <[email protected]> wrote: > Manmade stuff ends up in weird places. I stand by my assessment until > I see a chemical analysis and verdict from a respectable authority on > meteorites. ;) > > BTW - I know plenty about metal detectors and have spent years > wandering the wilds. I've run across some odd stuff out in the middle > of nowhere in places where there were no traces of human activity. So > the location has nothing to do with whether it's a meteorite or not. > I guess a cannonball found in the Franconia strewnfield must be a > meteorite because it was found in a known meteorite strewnfield. > > Best regards, > > MikeG > > > On 5/8/10, Erik Fisler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It's a Franconia Iron. When you've been out in the field and walked two >> and >> a half miles into some inhospitable desert and you can only find them >> within >> the strewn field then you know... I have plenty of dumb bells and funky >> "U" >> shaped irons but most of them are flat and corn flake looking because >> they >> pealed out of the second or third break up of the meteorite and did not >> have >> enough time to orient. They don't get very big because most of them were >> only the size of peas or smaller when they peeled out of the meteorites >> in >> flight. >> >> It's easy to sit in your rolly chair and say meteor wrong. I suggest you >> spend 50 hours learning to properly use a quality metal detector and then >> walk two miles from the rail road tracks(as a crow flies lol) and stay >> out >> there for 12 hours to get your head right. Then tell me the stuff you >> found >> was man made LMAO!!! >> >> MANMADE!!! MANMADE!!! hahahaha >> >> [Erik] >> >>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:11:42 -0400 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> CC: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - >>> May 8, 2010 >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Flanged buttons of this type are limited to tektites, which undergo a >>> vastly different formation process than meteorites. There are no >>> meteorite flanged buttons, or if there is, I have not seen in during >>> my experience of handling thousands of meteorites and seeing photos of >>> tens of thousands of meteorites. Nor I have ever read anything in the >>> scientific literature that allows for meteorite flanged buttons of >>> this type. >>> >>> This is either a meteorwrong, or a million-dollar find of the century >>> - I'd bet on the former. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> MikeG >>> >>> >>> On 5/8/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Why would you even think that's a meteorite? I think Darren called it. >>>> It's a snap fastener. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Phil Whitmer >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites >>> http://www.galactic-stone.com >>> http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites > http://www.galactic-stone.com > http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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
