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