[meteorite-list] Help with a Strange Rock

Hello I would like some information please, I found a strange heavy rock this weekend at a yard sale. I bought it because it was rather nice and I thought it might be raw hematite. However later I thought it might be a meteorite but although it does attract a magnet and passes every test (except

Re: [meteorite-list] Help with a Strange Rock

May 5, 2002 Greetings Ron and Fellow Meteorite Enthusiasts! I do not know of any meteorite that attracts other metallic objects naturally, but I do think it is possible to artificially produce this effect and thus change one into a magnet. Nevertheless, when I was studying my first suspected

Re: [meteorite-list] Help with a Strange Rock

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it also exhibits a very weak magnetic field. I have never heard of this associated with a meteorite. Any ideas of what it might be? Thanks, Ron What do you mean? That the rock deviates a compass? Once you have "treated" it with a magnet most meteorites as well as