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Thanks bob for the info... i'll try to polish the surface and get some neat pictures..... Johnno you're not nut, but what are you saying? this is a fossilized eggplant.. i'm sure of it.

Well it wasn't red, but it was rust orange... really reminded me of rust when i was cutting it... is that good enough?

Bush doctor do you think so ? it would make sense. it is not magnetic, and very dense. it's density - if i remember correctly - is 3.8 gm/ml . umm i think. i measured and tested all that because when first i found it i thought it was a meteorite. oh and it was found in the Libyan desert.

thanks steve i'll let you know.... to be honest i didn't think it would be this hard.... :P

A really big saw used to cut marble...

you don't see them here, but there are things like tiny grains of sand you can see in the cross section, also some tiny shiny crystal like specs.and yes it's a rock.

Yeah i'm sorry i didn't refer to the size. so it's 8 cm in diameter in the round part, and it tapers at the top an extra cm so from bottom to top it's 9 cm. it's perfectly tear shaped... maybe a petrified pear ?

Hi guys, I've had this thing for years and i have no idea what it is. it is perfectly tear shaped. the other day i sawed it in half and it revealed concentric layers as you can see. all i know about it is that it was found in the desert. Any ideas ? Petrified egg? eggplant ? onion ?