Meteorites

[Astrofriend (Lars)]

Hi,
A few weeks ago I and my girlfriend went to the museum, why? Because they have some meteorites there. It was an open day and lot of people.

This is an alternative to buy expensive equipment as telescopes to get a glimpse of what's out there.

Better to get closer to the objects?

I have some simple photos from our visit at the museum here:

http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/...seet-2019.html

Any of you who have tried to found meteorites out in the nature ?

/Lars

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Can you imagine anything making a footprint in solid Iron,...... not...... even an excavator could not make an imprint in solit Iron let alone a mammal no matter how big..... just coincidence

I have a couple the round one lower left is a tektite

The scale is inches not cm

Large one is 1.5 Kilo

If you look close at the RH one it is indented showing it broke away from a larger one


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[Bobbyoutback]

Hi Lars ,
Iv'e found some small ones & have sent the cut offs parts for confirmation that they are meteorites , below is one I found back in 2007 cut to show the interior .

They are harder to find then gold !

Bobby .

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Problem is there are sooooo many fakes, the Science Museum now charge to say real or not, mine are thanks to my friend Patrick Moore

If it has a regular shape, square, rectangle, triangle it is not

https://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-the-...Be-a-Meteorite

[Astrofriend (Lars)]

Hi Bobby and Jeremy,
Thanks for the information, I put the link on my homepage for others to see.

Exiting that you both have found meteorites, 1.5 kg sounds as a heavy one to me.

In the most Northern Sweden I know there are people hunting meteorites. Where I live in the lower half, never heard anybody found something.

/Lars

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Originally Posted by Astrofriend

Hi Bobby and Jeremy,
Thanks for the information, I put the link on my homepage for others to see.

Exiting that you both have found meteorites, 1.5 kg sounds as a heavy one to me.

In the most Northern Sweden I know there are people hunting meteorites. Where I live in the lower half, never heard anybody found something.

/Lars

Not found, given to me by Patrick Moore a friend of me and my sons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore

My sons with uninvited guest

[sil (Steve)]

haven't found any but have a bunch in my collection. I do have an assortment of concretions that people sometimes claim to be meteorites to scam unsuspecting buyers. if you buy then do so from a valid source, not "some bloke in india". it also helps if you learn a bit so you can do some self testing on the piece and be confident its real. very difficult with stony meteorites. fairly impossible with claimed pieces of mars/moon. look online there are sites online that show meteorites as well as "meteowrongs" that show the similarities and differences of surface marks. identification by visual is only partly possible and just a single datapoint in regards to identification especially if you want to attribute it to a specfic meteor. i'm hoping one day to get my collection out and organised and maybe have a world map and lay them out by location and impact object. its an interesting area to me, not just the meteorites themselves but the secondary specimens created from an impact like glasses and tectites.

[Bobbyoutback]

Well said Sil :

The more you study & handle different types of meteorites the better you get at finding the real thing , I'm now at a stage that i can visually recognise most meteorites from meteoritewrongs in the field before doing more tests .

As most are magnetic I use a rare earth magnet stuck on the end of a golf club , saves bending down when hunting .

A great book to acquire but hard to find is Rocks from Space second edition by O. Richard Norton .

Australia has laws in place that do not allow hunting & ownership in many states , NSW is OK with ownership , finding & selling on but only within Australia .

Top Aussie meteorite site :
http://www.meteorites.com.au/home.html

Have Fun
Bobby .

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Originally Posted by sil

haven't found any but have a bunch in my collection. I do have an assortment of concretions that people sometimes claim to be meteorites to scam unsuspecting buyers. if you buy then do so from a valid source, not "some bloke in india". it also helps if you learn a bit so you can do some self testing on the piece and be confident its real. very difficult with stony meteorites. fairly impossible with claimed pieces of mars/moon. look online there are sites online that show meteorites as well as "meteowrongs" that show the similarities and differences of surface marks. identification by visual is only partly possible and just a single datapoint in regards to identification especially if you want to attribute it to a specfic meteor. i'm hoping one day to get my collection out and organised and maybe have a world map and lay them out by location and impact object. its an interesting area to me, not just the meteorites themselves but the secondary specimens created from an impact like glasses and tectites.

Like the tektite in my image bottom left, not a meteorite but ejecta