Geminrock Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Magnetic and looks burnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrock Bob Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Its not a meteorite. It looks like slag to me. It could be volcanic. Is that a saw mark low in the last photo? It looks folded. And the inclusions. Lots of holes. It looks like it was molten. None of this is characteristic of an meteorite. Grind a spot on it. Check out the inside. It isn't a meteorite but you can learn a lot about meteorite ID by going ahead and testing it. Grind a window. Note the streak color. Look for free metal. Observe the inclusions. If it is slag it may have free metallic iron in it. Magnetism means iron. Your job is to determine if this iron is mineral or metallic. Once you find that out then you will know a lot more about what it could be. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayray Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Sorry, it doesn’t have any real characteristics of a meteorite. Jayray 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSilicate Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 If it Is really "magnetic" as you say, that would mean a natural magnet with the ability to attract without the magnetic field being induced. Lodestone is an example. Possibly you meant that it is attracted to a magnet which is quite different. Then you are talking about magnetic susceptibilty. Whatever it is, just looking at your pictures, no outward indicators that it is extraterrestrial can be seen. Its rare that a rock from space doesn't show some indication of the violent passage thru the earth's atmosphere. Even if you can't see flow lines with the naked eye, sometimes such indicators are still seen thru use of magnification. Some other indicators found on rocks from space are regmaglypts, melting, flowing and redepositing of material such as is the case with rollover lips, and fusion crust, primary or secondary. None of those do I see on your rock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_day Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 I don’t know space rocks but I do know earth rocks. I’m 100% certain this is not a meteorite. It is most likely slag with a very slim possibility of it being vesicular basalt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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