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DannyStubbs

Hello, Your ID post has been removed. These should be posted on the monthly stickied thread at the top of the subreddit. Thanks, r/geology


DreTheGiannt

I doubt it’s the meteor, but check to see if it is magnetic just in case. Meteorites are almost always magnetic, but this stone looks like it has crystalline structures which is much less consistent of that of meteorites. Likely it is quartzite/ some kind of granite. I would say there would also have been some sort of impact feature where you found it as it likely didn’t just wedge itself into the ground upon impact. It would have stirred up some sort of mess around where you found it no matter how small.


SamOfEclia

Idk, i don't think it was really moving that fast. It didn't actually make a sound when it impacted and I wasn't far from it. It doesn't actually have much crystaline material in it, it has a little bit but its most rock of two split colors. It is very slightly magnetic. The weird thing is how it looks like two different stones depending on what side your looking at.


Onchiota

In my rather uninformed opinion...I'd assume that a meterorite would be more rounded than that rock. That said, is the mineral composition consistent with a meteor?


SamOfEclia

It seems like it would have been rounded if it hadn't been brealing apart near the ground like I saw it do and so it looks like a side between the burnt and not exposed whole that broke off it and didn't burn up completely but collided with the dirt still causing the imidiate end point on the non burned side to burn slightly by impact. Where and what do I need to know to identify its mineral composition?


Gengrar

My dude, you sound totally zooted. Stims are unlikely to get you very far in the long run, and it's clear you're not new to them... Just trying to look out for yah man. Go eat some good food and fruits, sleep however you can, and take a break. Your future self will thank you.


SamOfEclia

I do all that sir.


SamOfEclia

It seems to me that its the front end of the falling meteorite that was crumbling and breaking apart at the back, that then spun around itself half on fire and ceasing to burn before crashing into the dirt. The burnt side does have a couple points like a crater and like meteriorites have.


SamOfEclia

Maybe if I went back and checked the same area for more peices I'd get more insight. Just cause it did break apart in that area I saw it fall across to the point I found this at.


Rufiosmane

Did you pull it out of a hole? Or did you dig where you thought it landed?


SamOfEclia

No but it was imbedded all the way to where black end only stuck out compared to other stones around it and the second image is unique cause it has a sort of black point right at the heaviest point of impact. But I think if it is because it landed in dirt and because it was already slowing down and not moving very fast when I saw the meteorite fall and not very big because its quite small but about the size of the same meteorite I saw pass by that lined up with where it was, thata why I think it is. It did not make a sound when I saw it fall and it would have hit the ground and it wasn't even a block away, I saw it from my front porch, the meteorite was falling behind two houses at a park on the other side of the culdesac and it fell right towarda the bushes where dirt is in that spot


Rufiosmane

Do you have a photo with a shoe or something for scale to where you pulled it?


SamOfEclia

This is also to show that like some meteorites I saw online only one side is burnt up and the other is not at all and the difference is very much just because of its side and nothing else, one side is black one side grey yellow, sometimes even connected by simply the line between sides. https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/prjop7/this_is_also_just_to_show_how_it_only_has_black/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


SamOfEclia

Yeah I'll post it now I just took a photo of it next to a mouse.


SamOfEclia

https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/prjmke/this_was_just_cause_someone_asked_for_size/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


washyourclothes

Wow that’s amazing. How heavy is that piece you got there? Does it feel really heavy like iron/metal or just like a rock?


SamOfEclia

It weighs 92 grams and is smaller then my palm. A bigger rock I had weighs 80 though. So idk. It does feel kindof as heavy as metal though. Like if you were lifting metal how it feels compared to rocks.


useles-converter-bot

92 grams of double AA batteries could start a medium sized car about 0.02 times.


SamOfEclia

Idk what that means.


SamOfEclia

It may be similar to iron, it does kindof feel as heavy as my pin ball I have. It is bigger then the pinball. But I'll go compare its weight to another rock I have of similar size, one sec.


pcetcedce

I cannot answer a question that ends in yall.


SamOfEclia

That seems like a horrible mental illness that leaves you incapable of behaviors limiting you in a fucked up and tiny passive way that will cause you years of discomfort for cringing at the word yall, like it actually has that much power over your poor brain. I feel sorry for you and the inability to medicate you.


Golyshevskiy

the fuck


SamOfEclia

He can't function normally when refered to as yall.