I agree Martin. One person contacted me with what he said was absolutely a "meteorite" it had even been checked and confirmed to be a meteorite by a geology professor of a local college in the American Mid-West (No, I won't tell you the name). I asked for a picture. It was very clearly a piece of jade. Anne M. Black _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc. _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/) In a message dated 9/12/2010 4:02:01 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Colleges... Meteorites are a tiny niche in mineralogy. I'd have my doubts, whether most colleges would be able to identify a meteorite (rare types certainly not). Sometimes the finders address me even with an expertise from university labs, with stones, where from the outer appearance everybody of the list here would rule out within a second, that it could be a meteorite - and where the chemical data measured clearly confirm, that it is no meteorite. Nevertheless sometimes the expert wrote under the tables, that it is a meteorite.
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