Dear List, When is a possible iron meteorite too small to have tested? What looks like a tiny oriented iron. Is only 7mm long, 5mm high by 4mm wide. I am not sure what the weight would be? maybe a gram? maybe alot less. No clue.
In 2010 I went to my cousins farm, (rock hunting) Got out of my Jeep, walked 30 yards along a hay-field, crossed a creek and started looking at glacier rocks on a gravel bar, when I seen it was stuck to my magnet, I always have my camera, so I took pictures. It seems the surface rust is very thin. It turned black from the oils on my fingers in just a couple of days. I did file a window, it is solid, no gas holes. So I am thinking this may be too small to test, "not sure what is required." If I did my own acid etch, and it did produce a widmanstatten pattern, like a Cape York iron, Is that 100% proff that it is a meteorite? I would donate 100% of somthing this small, just to say, I found the 13th, meteorite in Ohio. Like I am sure most people would. Any way here is a facebook link with pictures, for thows interested. I also posted a glacier map of Ohio and plotted all meteorites found here. It is interesting that most were found in the glacier boundry. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65953&id=100000209843157&l=ae4ac4cc16 dave Myers ______________________________________________ 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
