I actually saw a meteorite land in some woody area at the back of my house late one night.super bright light it exploded just before it hit the ground.it had whizzed through the air fairly quick making a fizzing kind of sound.i actually felt honoured to of witness it,this is the first time I have relayed this story as I thought no one would beleive me in my family.
Well it is much more common than alien sightings, and it is known to be real. I believe you, I see no reason why you would be lying. Did you go get the meteor? If you had and made a million bucks off it I would suspect your story, but probably still believe you and ask for lunch.
@@johnphantom no I didnt get it as it's in a wooded area that used to be a plum orchard filled with bramble,private property and would be difficult to get to as a neighbours garden crosses at the end of my garden a bit.im sure it will be found one day.i am left with knowing I saw a amazing sight.
Witnessed the same thing happen! I was checking the mail and as I turned around to go back to the house, something landed or would’ve landed if it didn’t burn up maybe 30 yards away from my backyard
A friend and my dog saw one that was a bright whitish green color and it crashed into Keho lake in Southern Alberta. I was told my dog growled as the light appeared while they were driving. I'm not sure what to make of people who wouldn't believe anyone that witnessed a meteorite, it's like saying science is gobbledegook lol
Friend of mine owns a large acerage, that has been in his family for 3 generations. Every year when the fields are plowed, he walks them looking for arrow heads, as their was a native summer camp there in the past. Finds a strange looking stone,and takes it home. Went to see him one afternoon, the stone is on the steps of his front porch. I was imediately drawn to it, knowing a little about meteorites. It was black, sculpted, covered with shallow dimples, and very heavy for it's size. Have to try some of your sugestions to verify, but I'm pretty sure it's a meteorite.
@@isabellavalencia8026 I am pretty certain that it is. Now just to convince my friend of it's potential value. Not that he would likely sell it, but just appreciate it for what it is. It's not that big smaller than my fist, but!! It is heavy. By comparison I have a chunk of rich ore - ( gold, platinum, copper, silver, etc. ) from a local mine about the same size, the one he has is noticeably heavier.
I was using a 100 lbs strength neodymium magnet in the lake to find random stuff and I found a smooth, black, magnetic rock. 99% chance it wasn't a meteorite but I am glad I found this video, now I can perform extra tests for the future.
A number of years ago,I was walking along a river bank ( In Vermont ,U.S.A ) and found a small ( three x one x two inch) chunk of weird metallic stone . It was very magnetic and was not sharp yet did look like it was a small fragment of a larger body of iron rich material . As I recall on one surface it looked like a smooth, metallic , thin veneer of shiny iron formed a "skin" on said surface . This smooth surface looked like it had been heated to very high temperatures .The rest of the specimen looked like it had a very light patina of deep rust on all the other surfaces . This small rock was also unusually heavy for its size. Honestly, I believe that this iron rich stone was a meteor fragment . Unfortunately I had a house fire and lost my rather extensive rock/mineral collection . I am slowly building up my collection but have yet to find a rock like the one mentioned . I am hopeful .
Sounds like magnetite. Very heavy, very hard, very magnetic. Is dark black usually with a rainbow Sheen held in the light just so. Can have smooth or sharp edges depending where it's been. I tried to polish sharp edge and it took forever to get it to be smooth, and I have extensive experience and polishing Stone and metal etc.. there are other iron ore type Stones you will find, that also May resemble what you have described.
I know a giant one passed by earth a few years ago that was mostly platinum. It actually incited a commercial interest in mining extra terrestrial meteorites
My son an I walked through the fields that are covered mostly in white sand in the bare areas. The next day cutting through there again we found a black rock by our footprints from the day before. I ran the metal detector over it an it went off . I threw it in my pocket. A few days later I dumped all the little things that were found in a vase where it sat for a couple years. I was cleaning out the stuff an came across it again. I used a hacksaw an cut it open an polished one piece. It cut as part metal an part stone. The metal in it has never rusted even after handlingit with sweaty hands. There's also small round lighter colored areas also. It sticks very well to magnets. Everyone always says its not a meteor but well always say they would like first dibs on looking at it. The rocks in our area are limestone, those iron nodules, chert and that pure clear silica rock that one can see through. We don't have anything around here that even remotely looks like basalt on the outside. There aren't any railroads nearby nor is it old slag. I really don't know what it is I just like it. It just sits in the cabinet with other stuff I find interesting When I took geology in college we handled a lot of meteors that were cool. They had a lot of stuff in storage they had collected including several closed up crates of uranium ore they didn't even know was there. I do know where a rock hit while I was sitting an watching my goats graze. A streak came straight down over there in the clay an grass. I heard it hit hard with a thud The grass was at the time waist high an the clay was soft from lots of rain. I spent weeks looking around for it. I didn't have a metal detector at the time an had to just dig around in the grass. There's a dip in that field that made it difficult to locate the place it hit. Never could find what it was . My thoughts on it was it could have been an airline part. Right above my head at 30 + thousand feet are all the planes going north out of Florida .Later the property was sold an the owners that dumped the contents of their new shed over the area. Now the grass an dog fennel keeps growing up every year an it 6 feet tall with young pines mixed in.
Dead Kidney Thief, walked past a stone, later wondered about it, went back, picked it up, washed it today, put a magnet next to it a rare earth one, nothing happened, set it aside. Disappointment. Watched the first couple of minutes of this vid. Cut piece of string - sandwiched two rare earth magnet at end of string, dangled it near rock, string moved and magnets attached to rock !! This would not have happened without this video. Have used this vid already and am very grateful to time effort spent by Blue Sky presenting it Have now got a rock weighing a kilo or more which needs further testing.
Thanx for doing the video. My son found one on my roof. Just seeing where it was found was enough for me, but it passes every test except the "window." I really didn't want to grind it.
Meteorites that won't attract a magnet are called Chondrites. Identifying whether or not you are in possession of a Chondrite can be tricky business. It takes quite a bit of traversing online blogs on the subject.
Dan Swan Actually, I should have been clearer. There are 4 groups of Chondrites. 3 groups that will attract a magnet to varying degrees ( Groups 1~3 ) and 1 group that will weakly attract magnets, if at all. The latter being the " LL Group ". The subtype class of the LL Group that won't attract a magnet at all are very rare, btw. Courtesy of the net: LL Group " This group represents the least common class of ordinary chondrites since it includes just about 1,100 members (again, including probable pairings). The "LL" stands for "low iron" and "low metal" reflecting that LL chondrites usually contain a weight percentage of 19 to 22% total iron, but only 1 to 3% free metal. Hence, they are only weakly attracted to a magnet. Like the other ordinary chondrites, the LL chondrites show petrologic types from 1 - 7, but the distribution of types shows no distinct peak. The most common LL chondrites are LL6 and LL5 with about 400 members each. More unequilibrated types such as LL4 and LL3 are much more rare with just about 70 members each. The olivine in LL chondrites is more iron-rich than in the other ordinary chondrites, and this implies that the LL chondrites must have formed under more oxidizing conditions than the H or L chondrites. Older literature lists the LL chondrites often as "amphoterites" since they were thought to be a connecting link between chondrites and achondrites, but this name is misleading and no longer in use. Scientists are still searching for a probable parent body for the LL group. One small main belt asteroid, 3628 Boznemcová, has been spotted which exhibits a similar reflectance spectrum to the spectra of the LL chondrites, but with a diameter of just 7 km it seems to be too small to be regarded as the original parent body of the LL members. Maybe it's just a fragment of a common ancestor which links the LL chondrites to 3628 Boznemcová, and further research will still have to find the real source of the LL chondrites within the dense population of NEOs crossing Earth's orbit ". I found all this out through research after during a rock hunt, I found what I suspected might be a meteorite a few weeks ago. I excitedly took it home after the find and put a powerful magnet to it ... nothing. I felt dejected at first ( because like a dummy I thought that everything meteoric that fell to Earth would always attract a magnet ...WRONG !!! ), but as I rolled the thing around in my hands and studied its appearance it told me I had something worth following up on. After my research, then contacting a meteor specialist online and providing him with pictures of my find, it turned out I was right. I had found a LL Group~Chondrite. Found a large fossilized tooth that day also.
Hey Dan Swan , do you ever use or have access to a spectrometer ? Even though almost all (weird) rocks or minerals ARE-NOT meteorites , some of them are so cool we still want to know what they are ,or what they are made of & thank you for your very good comment (sir)
Chad Simmons I don't know what that is lol. I have a small rock that I picked up when metal detecting. It set the detector off but when I put a magnate on it, it doesn't stick. It's kind of silver gray in color with a crystal look to it. Just thought it'd be nice to know hat it was. Probably some kind of raw ore.
Thank you very much for this informative video. I may be going to Arizona soon and I now feel confident I'll be able to successfully identify a space rock from a terrestrial rock.
Fourth test: it fell from the sky, glowing yellow. It took 20 minutes to cool down. It has a bubbly surface and sharp fractures from breaking off a bigger rock. Don't touch it hot. It can severely incinerate your fingers .
What if you pull it out of Lake Michigan where it was worn by waves for many years? How will you know then? Looks like iron, is magnetic, has stone within, abnormaly heavy for its size.
That’s so crazy.. I know I’ve left meteorites in the field thinking they were ordinary rocks. I know less than 1% really were but still, I’ve seen that exact thing more than once and disregarded it. Now I know what to do when I see something like it in the future. Thank you, hopefully one day one will be a good one and I’ll know it. 😊
I have found several of them too ,friend and didn’t know what they were and left them…(I’m in south-central ohio)…at least two of them were baseball sized rocks….very heavy and iron based….
What about rocks that push away a rare earth magnet(neodymium)? Have found some odd very heavy rocks that make my old compass go crazy and deflect my rare earth magnet. Confused as to what the rock is????
That's not possible to always push a magnet away. It sounds like the rock is magnetic itself, rotating the magnet 180degrees should make them attract. To be strongly magnetic in that way means it was formed in a hot environment with a strong magnetic field present, so is most likely not a meteor. It could be magnatite. But an expert should look if your not certain.
Ok, I went through all the techniques shown and the last, when sanded.....bright metal flecks, it even sparked. Found this fist sized baby in a stream bed along with several other possible meteorite pieces and I'd say that the iron content is extreme. Probably even greater than 30% as it pulls a regular magnet from over 3 inches away from it and a strong magnet from nearly 4-5 inches. After old Wormouth Brothers Foundry went out of business I obtained the conveyor belt nose magnets for separating iron from the black sand and they can easily lock on to over 50 pound objects so we drag the streams and dried beds for them before but we'll be going out more often now to find even more of these goodies :) My thanks for these easy to grasp techniques,, will take a pic and post on your FB for your opinion.
If you're going to use a super strong magnet, you may want to have a sheet of rubber on the surface, otherwise you could cause your target to fracture upon impact with the magnet.
My wife and I found a rock that was much heavier than the surrounding rock and didn't look like the others. It was the deeper brown as you mentioned. It did not pass the magnet test (direct contect pull), but do stoney meteorites still have the iron content enough for the magnet to attract to it?
meteorites can be weathered so the texture test only apply's to them if they are not too badly weathered. my dad knew nothing about meteorites except that they were rocks that fell from space and burnt up in the atmosphere when he saw a dark rock half sticking out of the ground in the Gibson desert he told me that he instantly knew it had fallen from space. he rekons it was just obvious for what ever reason. he dug it up and carried it in his back pack 5 km to his car. the fucking thing weighed 14kg hahaha. me and my sister where young and had done a shorter walk with my mum so we missed out. it was still one of the coolest days of my life. my dad and i have been obsessed with meteorites ever since. despite looking we haven't found any since hahaha. we donated it to the Australian Museum in sydney and are eagerly weighting to hear what information they can tell us about it. some sit in plane sight and are easy to identify and others blend in with terrestrial rocks its all just luck.
I live in Needles, cali, we live in the desert Me and my 2 kids, like to rock collect, and this video helped me teach my kids that we were now searching for treasure. thanks so much, we have a lot of stones that pass all three tests...... Now what????
Hey I found something on a Beach in New England what has a lot of the features of a meteorite but could also be a slag. Would you be able to take a peek on some pics?
I knew a place where there were literally hundreds of them--but they were all small and were pretty much metallic fragments. Magnets pick them up, and erosion leaves them on the surface. They are almost 100% iron. Some of them are a mixture of iron and contain phenolic compounds--we called them carbonaceous chondrites.
I found a rock that was black, and rusted. It had Iron bubbles on it. The top and two sodes were smooth. The underside was like bumpy thumbprints all over it. It was a rock between the size of a small-medium watermelon. It weighed about 15-20 pounds. It was a beautiful rock. I suspected it to be lava rock, because of the ripples underneath. It had alot of iron in it. The fact I found it in the woods in Southern Tennessee, made me curious how a “ lava raovk would be that far away from the nearest active volcanoes( mexico and Hawaii). I left the rock there and have wished a thousand times I would have drilled into it to see what the inside looks like!!!!
Don't forget the volcanoes in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, California, Oregon and Washington. Never cared that much to go back east and look at the geology.
May I ask have you used the Moh's Test against a regular diamond? What type environment and country were they found. I'm a big fan and an enthusiast. I'd love to see more of your findings. And possibly get your take on a few of mine.
It is interesting to find an actual meteorite. From what I was told there are instances where a meteorites that do not contain iron. Most do contain some iron. There has been property damage from meteorites. Some have hit and damaged cars, injured and killed people, and damaged buildings.
I found one in the Arivaca Desert of Arizona about 5 years ago. It weighs 32 grams. I just bought a geode kit for my 4 and 5 year old grandsons. get 'em started early.
Meteorite was known as the axes of thunderstorm in Asian. People were buying from Villagers. No more than $100 (US) they are heavy but not too big the same size of Axe.
I have a rock, found at the Bloody Creek Structure in Nova Scotia, Canada, a known multiple impact site. It is heavy for it's size, and has what appears to be a burnt crust on the outside. It is always incredibly magnetic.
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I was metal detecting a old homestead in a farm field and I just happen to go over a rock and it sound of has iron which I dont pay much attention to bu tttg I picked up and it was real heavy brought it home and it draws a magnet to it , it looks a lot like the one you had , so I will do the window test and see what happens , I know it will show the metal flakes because I can see them under a flash light , thanks again .......
I found a gray rock in a tailings pile at an old ghost town silver mining camp in western New Mexico. It's as heavy as a red brick, but only about sixty percent of the size, and it caused my metal detector to ring loud and clear. It will definitely cause a string-hanging magnet to move, but only very slightly, which leads me to believe that there are other metals within it. The edges aren't sharp, but they're not smooth, either. That, and the fact of where it was found makes me believe that it's not a meteorite. Any opinion about what I found would be greatly appreciated.
I found a bead that was totally encased in rock. It had artwork on it and I believe it is made from a piece if an iron meteorite. It is the same size and has the same exact features as one in the Smithsonian institute that came from the meteorite in Anoku, Missouri. It is in very good condition.
I found 2 about 3 years ago and I even seen it when it was falling from the sky.. the bigger one is about the size of a golf ball and the other one is about an 1 1/4 and it comes to somewhat of a point .. but the cool thing about it is that they interlock with one another like a puzzle piece.. and very dense and heavy
This guy is a joke. #1: Not all meteorites will attract a magnet. #2: Some meteorites have sharp edges and holes/voids ( note at 6:09 in the video where he's sanding on the meteorite and you can plainly can see both sharp edges AND !!! holes/voids ). #3: I've never ground on any of the meteorites I've discovered. To do so devalues them if you're looking to sell.
Thanks for smart commenters like you. Part of the problem with internet is that anyone can post even if their knowledge is lacking, have a good one ReneeNme.
Hes right. Many stony meteorites will not attract a magnet. I wonder how many many meteorites have been thrown away because of goofballs like this guy.
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Hello, very interesting as a video. Please, I have a question about your magnet: Can you tell me the strength capacity of your magnet that you used in the test? Is it: N35, N4 or the strongest N52? As I will be referring to your test, it will be better to use the same magnet that you have used. Thank you in advance.
*Doesn't Lodestone pass these tests yet not a meteorite?* I was digging a pool in my backyard and being a novice collector my son found a few pieces in our otherwise clay dirt, but only a few, and I had (and have) a hard time telling if it is meteorite or Lodestone thus my research here on your video and amateur question.
As a paperboy, I always looked for weird rocks in my customer's driveways. One guy got his gravel from someplace that had a ton of iron pyrite. Anyhow, I found a small rock ( 1.5" x 4"), that checked all the boxes. When I left home, I left it at my parent's, and have no idea where it went.
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I read everything I can find on the subject of meteorites. One article stated that using a magnet on a meteorite destroys any scientific value that the meteorite would have had. That was about ten years ago. Since then I have never been able to find anything in print that would give more information on this; whether it is true or not. I have asked two authors of articles on meteorites if this is true. That is if they invited comments. No response. I wonder if this indicates that no one knows, or if it is known to most likely be true but since it is the most convenient and widely used way to ID meteorites no one wants to upset the Apple cart, so to speak. So I’m putting it out there: Is it true that exposing a meteorite to a magnet irrevocably changes the meteorite’s structure in some way? If so, are most collectors’ meteorites useless except as something to simply possess - to handle and to look at or maybe to sell - but nothing else?
The Government blind steals and seals any meteorite identification information constantly. It ties into the 'born poor' theory, where they intentionally remove ANY possibility of low income people striking it rich. Just like how they simply removed the value of bearer bonds, they made them worthless overnight, intentionally, because too many poor people were finding/inheriting them and recieving substantial payouts in return, it infuriated the Government because nobody is supposed to have any money but the Elites. Look it up, bearer bonds are worthless in 2022, and people should have LOST it when they first did that, but hardly anyone knew. I feel as though this Meteorite info debacle is directly related in context, "keep them poor." 🙄
I've got a smooth greenish Black Rock I found while scuba diving of the coast near Brunswick GA. Had a friend look at because it was smooth, except a small melted bubble looking spot. It acts like it has some kind of weak magnetic reaction, but I never tried a good magnet on it. My pal tapped it with a tiny rock tool and chipped a price off that I saved and keep it in place with the rock. He seems to think that a few million years ago a volcano chunked it high in to the atmosphere, and it fell back to earth, landing in the ocean. I tried googling it but according to Google, no volcano has ever chunked a rock like that, not is there any signs of any others volcanic activity any where near there. I checked the whole area in the following months. It has a greenish tint and not rusty. Do you have a name for a molten volcanic lava that I spit high into the atmosphere and thrown long distances ?
السلام عليكم لدي احجار كريمه متاكد منها وهي الالماس الاسود تم قياس الكثافه والصلبه كما يوجد حجر النيزك بريشيا القمري ارجو ارسال واتس اب او انستجرام لارسال بعض الصور والفيديوهات للتاكد
Any idea of what type of rock has parallel Lines, I will call these A,B,C.. and reference them perceptual as running flat from left to right, just as a playing card laying on a table "_" ( roughly 1/4 thick flat that passes through the Length and Width of the rock). The A.. "//////" Lines appear to be evenly spaced running parallel to each other at about a 45° angle. Then there is another set of lines, B.. "\\\\\\", running parallel to each other, at a constant angle to the set of A.. Lines at roughly 45° . Then there is another set, C.."===="(stacked" Lines that are running parallel to each other at 0° to the A.. and B.. Line sets.. Finally running Vertically there are another set of Lines that run top to bottom , side to side as if a playing card standing on its side to the initial flat card , "■■(each is one solid vertical piece running the full Height and Width of the Rock, spaced about 2 inches from each other with A,B,C, pathing through them. Easier .. Criss Cross Pieces fused together at equal angles making lots of little triangles and Horizontal pieces running top to bottom and side to side parallel to their partners , spaced about two inches apart front to back through the whole rock. Then there is what looks like a catastrophic damage that has broken, bent, twisted, sheared, etc the Rock .. Though one side is Flat while the rest of the perimeter is mangled in multiple ways .. The rock is roughly just over a foot by a foot by 10inches .. Comparable to if Bees made there Honey Combes in Triangles instead of Hexagon. While my description should be rewritten or rethought.. Take it as it is please, if you wish to Mock it.. please do it in as Entertainingly and creative as possible, no Systematic Troll hotkey replies" Please. Another I have questions about is a small boulder that I also liberated as a teenager from a place that doesn't exist so it couldn't matter.. But it was the smallest one of 28 Boulders brought back by the .... from an area about a hundred miles from Mt. McKinley. The thing that made this Boulder interesting is the drill hole in it, drilled perfectly only six or so inches but on a far from level surface. The hole and drill marks are identical to the ones in Egypt. I also have another piece from that area that looks like a piece of Jade with a gold nugget in the center. I've wanted to have someone tell me what this rock is for awhile now. Probably just a rock and rocks but I really liked their appearance. There's more to it all but probably just good for the campfire stories.. Any help or point in the right direction would be appreciated..
It's strange to me that every meteor is ferrous or sticks to a magnet. Arent there other types of (non ferrous) rocks out there that can re-enter the atmosphere?
I was digging when a very ordinary looking, smoother, dark, rock stuck to my shovel. It was actually quite a powerful magnetic stone. I still have it because I thought it to be a meteorite.
@@TheGreatest1974 I believe it could be lode stone. But there was no magnatite around. It may still be lode stone. It just would seem there would be more magnetite and lode stone than just one round fragment.
I collect Iron Pyrite nodules I really like them, their shape etc not magnetic though unless my magnet is poor but presumably there is iron in the Pyrites or the name, well you know.
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I found a 500 plus pound plus meteorite in a creek, had no iron. Had definite signs of heating and hydraulic plucking from entry into the atmosphere. Too big to carry out and definitely solid stone. No other stones in the creek has the same shape
depends on where you are looking... because not all meteorites are the result of random space rocks falling from the sky... there are several major impact zones around the Planet.. including here in Arizona and New Mexico where I live... so the stuff goes up... into the fringes of space... reaching zero velocity and falls back down.. but high enough to fall fast enough to cause ablation and heat scorching.. and generally a rounded bottom with the heavy side leading.. an area near Safford, Arizona where I was looking for opal is chock full of them... it's just a bit west of the actual impact. that's where they came down... en masse so to speak
Can somebody help me out? My cottage is in Parry Sound Ontario and was built over huge rocks. Rock every where. I have a spot where I can park a car any car and after two three days the car will be hard to start and dead battery every time? Is the cottage sitting on $$$ lol just asking. Also the spot parked on is over earth not visible stone.
no, that's what he's saying. some meteorites are not magnetic. they are extremely rare but still saying that is simply wrong; I understand why it's the general rule saying that but don't like it.
Well, i can tell you here in Chile, in a Small Town called German Village, i found on my Mother's backyard a very heavy chunk of Black rock. I ve always believed it is a meteorite. We dont Know how that rock came or fell DOWN, neither when. One Day it just appeared on The ground. This rock is black, very smooth, holeless, and extraordinarily heavy. We always joke with visitors, we give the rock for them to see, without saying how heavy it is, and we laugh when we see their hands fall to the ground.
Someone once showed me a meteorite that had been polished and etched. This one was almost entirely metal and showed tremendous twinning of the microstructure.
i found one in Massachusetts that is magnetic, has some textures of fusion crust in it, and i found in a place where a meteorite hit but it has holes in it. i found it on a beach so could that have caused the holes to emerge? it has the rust and everything but i know for a fact i don't have any volcanoes here. someone please help
There are meteorites that have very little to no iron (mars and moon meteorites), however, they are very rare, and very hard to differentiate from other more common meteorites. If you have a fusion crust, but it is not magnetic, this does not mean its a meteor-wrong, just that its 99% possible not a meteorite.
We are having difficulties determining whether this is a meteorite that we have or if it is not it is very hard to cut into we use the commercial grade saw ain't even got new blades and it's still hard to cut into it doesn't have the flakes like you shown in your video but it has a solid like a stainless steel type of texture and color and we usually cut into many things how many types of metals at a scrap yard that my friend owns so he's not used to seeing anything like this that has such dance mass
I test mine and I can barley get the magnet off. Mine has like lots of finger prints dips and very heavy I've had this rocks since 1965 found them in backyard by the Mojave desert.
+Kidney Thief good luck finding one! Wait, you can't. you don't know how to identify it. But its probably fine, you may encounter one worth thousands, and through your vast intelect you can magically know its a meteorite!! You truly are the chosen one. no need for stupid videos like this!
they look almost like rail road slag. and this isn't a useless video for those who have the time to go looking, i have never found one but i do live by the ocean and have found ambergris. though you can't sell it in america you can ship it to other countries that still have no laws against it
Great teacher . I love how you get straight to the point, please if possible create and upload how to spot gold fools gold how to do simple test on diamonds fools diamonds thx greetings from southern California ( Hemet ..
Mine is burning. We digged it. Is there a way that I can show you? We used a grinder but it's too hard & heavy. We used torched. It's burning on some part but it fades when torch is off. We used a hammer. The hammer is broken now. We threw it hard. The floor is broken but the stone is not. I used steel brush, golden & silvery like came out. I keep brushing it but still glittery.
Olá companheiro. Eu tenho um canal no RUclips: Leon detectorismo e nesta minha pesquisa achei, um ferro parecendo com meteorito. Pois como faço pra vende-lo? Obrigado!
not set amount, depends on how old, what substrate it is in as a whole host of other factors. Sometimes you can find them sitting on the surface. Look up micro-meteorites and how you can find your own in your own back yard
I found one in a stream bed, it was the only one of its kind within a few acres (I was looking for specific stones) it has a bluish tint almost like peacock ore. I read online that it may have water and organic compounds. I’m not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions?
I saw a rock at the Grand Canyon that said it was a meteorite. It was a pretty good size but nothing like I haven't rolled over before, but it was so heavy, as if it were attached to a 30 foot rod in the ground. So is that actually a thing? Does what it weigh factor into it at all? I have never seen a rock that size I couldn't move.
Hoping you answer questions and can help me. My brother lives in AZ about 40 miles from the border. While 4 wheeling in the desert he found what I believe to be a meteorite. It's about the size of a football but VERY heavy and black. He keeps it in his garden as a decoration, but, I don't think it should be out in the elements. What are your thoughts and who can he go to to get it tested and find out the value?
I was mettle detecting once, & it was just a rock. Now I’m curious!!!! I layed the heavy rock on its side, & the magnet was basically torn out of my hand & is still stuck to it hard, so definitely iron! ??? Deep brown, found in a dried river bed.
I actually saw a meteorite land in some woody area at the back of my house late one night.super bright light it exploded just before it hit the ground.it had whizzed through the air fairly quick making a fizzing kind of sound.i actually felt honoured to of witness it,this is the first time I have relayed this story as I thought no one would beleive me in my family.
I know someone with a similar story, except he was on a tractor and saw the piece of stone glow from heat
Well it is much more common than alien sightings, and it is known to be real. I believe you, I see no reason why you would be lying. Did you go get the meteor? If you had and made a million bucks off it I would suspect your story, but probably still believe you and ask for lunch.
@@johnphantom no I didnt get it as it's in a wooded area that used to be a plum orchard filled with bramble,private property and would be difficult to get to as a neighbours garden crosses at the end of my garden a bit.im sure it will be found one day.i am left with knowing I saw a amazing sight.
Witnessed the same thing happen! I was checking the mail and as I turned around to go back to the house, something landed or would’ve landed if it didn’t burn up maybe 30 yards away from my backyard
A friend and my dog saw one that was a bright whitish green color and it crashed into Keho lake in Southern Alberta. I was told my dog growled as the light appeared while they were driving. I'm not sure what to make of people who wouldn't believe anyone that witnessed a meteorite, it's like saying science is gobbledegook lol
Friend of mine owns a large acerage, that has been in his family for 3 generations. Every year when the fields are plowed, he walks them looking for arrow heads, as their was a native summer camp there in the past. Finds a strange looking stone,and takes it home. Went to see him one afternoon, the stone is on the steps of his front porch. I was imediately drawn to it, knowing a little about meteorites. It was black, sculpted, covered with shallow dimples, and very heavy for it's size. Have to try some of your sugestions to verify, but I'm pretty sure it's a meteorite.
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I hope it is!
@@isabellavalencia8026 I am pretty certain that it is. Now just to convince my friend of it's potential value. Not that he would likely sell it, but just appreciate it for what it is. It's not that big smaller than my fist, but!! It is heavy. By comparison I have a chunk of rich ore - ( gold, platinum, copper, silver, etc. ) from a local mine about the same size, the one he has is noticeably heavier.
@@ant-1382 could it be a platinum/palladium bead?
I was using a 100 lbs strength neodymium magnet in the lake to find random stuff and I found a smooth, black, magnetic rock. 99% chance it wasn't a meteorite but I am glad I found this video, now I can perform extra tests for the future.
A number of years ago,I was walking along a river bank ( In Vermont ,U.S.A ) and found a small ( three x one x two inch) chunk of weird metallic stone . It was very magnetic and was not sharp yet did look like it was a small fragment of a larger body of iron rich material . As I recall on one surface it looked like a smooth, metallic , thin veneer of shiny iron formed a "skin" on said surface . This smooth surface looked like it had been heated to very high temperatures .The rest of the specimen looked like it had a very light patina of deep rust on all the other surfaces . This small rock was also unusually heavy for its size. Honestly, I believe that this iron rich stone was a meteor fragment . Unfortunately I had a house fire and lost my rather extensive rock/mineral collection . I am slowly building up my collection but have yet to find a rock like the one mentioned . I am hopeful .
Sounds like magnetite. Very heavy, very hard, very magnetic. Is dark black usually with a rainbow Sheen held in the light just so. Can have smooth or sharp edges depending where it's been. I tried to polish sharp edge and it took forever to get it to be smooth, and I have extensive experience and polishing Stone and metal etc.. there are other iron ore type Stones you will find, that also May resemble what you have described.
Good luck, I foresee you finding one the very next time you go for a simple stroll or hounding period 👌
House fire? Must be aliens are searching for their precious stone piece.
Sir today I found same stone
@@Thappadmaarpahalwan5544 You would think that Rocks and Meteorites would survive a House Fire ....
I metal detect and always study weird rocks and never bothered educating myself on a meteorites characteristics. Thanks for the lesson.
This is exactly how I found 2 stones that where calling like metal on the detector 😂
One of the most accurate videos on meteorites . Thanks for the knowledge.
A very good video, please watch it several times to understand the details. I am a geologist, and I have learned a few important points.
M not a geologist but learn too much
I have a question;
Do some meteorites have alloy metals that are not magnetic? For example, nickel and other high alloys are not magnetic at all.
I know a giant one passed by earth a few years ago that was mostly platinum. It actually incited a commercial interest in mining extra terrestrial meteorites
Alloys are made by man arnt they?
My son an I walked through the fields that are covered mostly in white sand in the bare areas. The next day cutting through there again we found a black rock by our footprints from the day before. I ran the metal detector over it an it went off . I threw it in my pocket. A few days later I dumped all the little things that were found in a vase where it sat for a couple years. I was cleaning out the stuff an came across it again. I used a hacksaw an cut it open an polished one piece. It cut as part metal an part stone. The metal in it has never rusted even after handlingit with sweaty hands. There's also small round lighter colored areas also. It sticks very well to magnets. Everyone always says its not a meteor but well always say they would like first dibs on looking at it. The rocks in our area are limestone, those iron nodules, chert and that pure clear silica rock that one can see through. We don't have anything around here that even remotely looks like basalt on the outside. There aren't any railroads nearby nor is it old slag. I really don't know what it is I just like it. It just sits in the cabinet with other stuff I find interesting When I took geology in college we handled a lot of meteors that were cool. They had a lot of stuff in storage they had collected including several closed up crates of uranium ore they didn't even know was there. I do know where a rock hit while I was sitting an watching my goats graze. A streak came straight down over there in the clay an grass. I heard it hit hard with a thud The grass was at the time waist high an the clay was soft from lots of rain. I spent weeks looking around for it. I didn't have a metal detector at the time an had to just dig around in the grass. There's a dip in that field that made it difficult to locate the place it hit. Never could find what it was . My thoughts on it was it could have been an airline part. Right above my head at 30 + thousand feet are all the planes going north out of Florida .Later the property was sold an the owners that dumped the contents of their new shed over the area. Now the grass an dog fennel keeps growing up every year an it 6 feet tall with young pines mixed in.
This guy's voice can turn a thriller into a romantic bedtime story 🥱
You need to correct 3:52. Not all meteorites have iron in them.
100 percent true I found a 20gram non ferrous meteorite a couple of years ago
very true ! not all meteorites have meteorites in them and also not all meteorites have dimples that are visible.
yes, I have collected meteorites from a a forest area in Delhi ,India ,they are meteorites and none of them show magnetic property.
Your right
heritageimpex how did you verified them?!
Dead Kidney Thief,
walked past a stone, later wondered about it, went back, picked it up,
washed it today, put a magnet next to it a rare earth one,
nothing happened, set it aside. Disappointment.
Watched the first couple of minutes of this vid.
Cut piece of string - sandwiched two rare earth magnet at end of string,
dangled it near rock, string moved and magnets attached to rock !!
This would not have happened without this video.
Have used this vid already and am very grateful to time effort spent by Blue Sky presenting it
Have now got a rock weighing a kilo or more which needs further testing.
he's wrong anyway not all meteorites are magnetic.
And hopefully a firm grasp of the concept of 'Friction' too!
Thanx for doing the video. My son found one on my roof. Just seeing where it was found was enough for me, but it passes every test except the "window." I really didn't want to grind it.
Fantastic clear concise instructions how to identify a meteorite in the field, thank you so much
They are actually called lodestones.
They are not meteorites coming from outer space.
This video is a fallacy.
Thank you! I'll be looking for them. Where I live it should be fairly easy to find many candidates for testing.
How do you test the nonmagnetic meteorites ? There are some very rare meteorites that have no metal at all.
Meteorites that won't attract a magnet are called Chondrites. Identifying whether or not you are in possession of a Chondrite can be tricky business. It takes quite a bit of traversing online blogs on the subject.
***** Thanks.
Dan Swan Actually, I should have been clearer. There are 4 groups of Chondrites. 3 groups that will attract a magnet to varying degrees ( Groups 1~3 ) and 1 group that will weakly attract magnets, if at all. The latter being the " LL Group ". The subtype class of the LL Group that won't attract a magnet at all are very rare, btw. Courtesy of the net:
LL Group
" This group represents the least common class of ordinary chondrites since it includes just about 1,100 members (again, including probable pairings). The "LL" stands for "low iron" and "low metal" reflecting that LL chondrites usually contain a weight percentage of 19 to 22% total iron, but only 1 to 3% free metal. Hence, they are only weakly attracted to a magnet.
Like the other ordinary chondrites, the LL chondrites show petrologic types from 1 - 7, but the distribution of types shows no distinct peak. The most common LL chondrites are LL6 and LL5 with about 400 members each. More unequilibrated types such as LL4 and LL3 are much more rare with just about 70 members each. The olivine in LL chondrites is more iron-rich than in the other ordinary chondrites, and this implies that the LL chondrites must have formed under more oxidizing conditions than the H or L chondrites. Older literature lists the LL chondrites often as "amphoterites" since they were thought to be a connecting link between chondrites and achondrites, but this name is misleading and no longer in use.
Scientists are still searching for a probable parent body for the LL group. One small main belt asteroid, 3628 Boznemcová, has been spotted which exhibits a similar reflectance spectrum to the spectra of the LL chondrites, but with a diameter of just 7 km it seems to be too small to be regarded as the original parent body of the LL members. Maybe it's just a fragment of a common ancestor which links the LL chondrites to 3628 Boznemcová, and further research will still have to find the real source of the LL chondrites within the dense population of NEOs crossing Earth's orbit ".
I found all this out through research after during a rock hunt, I found what I suspected might be a meteorite a few weeks ago. I excitedly took it home after the find and put a powerful magnet to it ... nothing. I felt dejected at first ( because like a dummy I thought that everything meteoric that fell to Earth would always attract a magnet ...WRONG !!! ), but as I rolled the thing around in my hands and studied its appearance it told me I had something worth following up on. After my research, then contacting a meteor specialist online and providing him with pictures of my find, it turned out I was right. I had found a LL Group~Chondrite. Found a large fossilized tooth that day also.
Hey Dan Swan , do you ever use or have access to a spectrometer ? Even though almost all (weird) rocks or minerals ARE-NOT meteorites , some of them are so cool we still want to know what they are ,or what they are made of & thank you for your very good comment (sir)
Chad Simmons I don't know what that is lol. I have a small rock that I picked up when metal detecting. It set the detector off but when I put a magnate on it, it doesn't stick. It's kind of silver gray in color with a crystal look to it. Just thought it'd be nice to know hat it was. Probably some kind of raw ore.
Thank you very much for this informative video. I may be going to Arizona soon and I now feel confident I'll be able to successfully identify a space rock from a terrestrial rock.
Me too
Fourth test: it fell from the sky, glowing yellow. It took 20 minutes to cool down. It has a bubbly surface and sharp fractures from breaking off a bigger rock. Don't touch it hot. It can severely incinerate your fingers .
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What if you pull it out of Lake Michigan where it was worn by waves for many years? How will you know then? Looks like iron, is magnetic, has stone within, abnormaly heavy for its size.
That’s so crazy.. I know I’ve left meteorites in the field thinking they were ordinary rocks. I know less than 1% really were but still, I’ve seen that exact thing more than once and disregarded it. Now I know what to do when I see something like it in the future. Thank you, hopefully one day one will be a good one and I’ll know it. 😊
good luck on your find 👍
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I have found several of them too ,friend and didn’t know what they were and left them…(I’m in south-central ohio)…at least two of them were baseball sized rocks….very heavy and iron based….
What about rocks that push away a rare earth magnet(neodymium)? Have found some odd very heavy rocks that make my old compass go crazy and deflect my rare earth magnet. Confused as to what the rock is????
Deb mitchell interesting
Deb mitchell
That's what you get for using Chinese rare earth magnets! They are always looking to pull (or push) a fast one on you!
That's not possible to always push a magnet away. It sounds like the rock is magnetic itself, rotating the magnet 180degrees should make them attract. To be strongly magnetic in that way means it was formed in a hot environment with a strong magnetic field present, so is most likely not a meteor. It could be magnatite. But an expert should look if your not certain.
You have a very rare Stone there. You should contact me
It's a unipole.
Ok, I went through all the techniques shown and the last, when sanded.....bright metal flecks, it even sparked. Found this fist sized baby in a stream bed along with several other possible meteorite pieces and I'd say that the iron content is extreme. Probably even greater than 30% as it pulls a regular magnet from over 3 inches away from it and a strong magnet from nearly 4-5 inches.
After old Wormouth Brothers Foundry went out of business I obtained the conveyor belt nose magnets for separating iron from the black sand and they can easily lock on to over 50 pound objects so we drag the streams and dried beds for them before but we'll be going out more often now to find even more of these goodies :)
My thanks for these easy to grasp techniques,, will take a pic and post on your FB for your opinion.
Stream beds are the best place. Some come in on old comets, so it won't have the entry burn. This guy is a newbie.
@@joeboyer7180 - Actually, she was never heard from again. Turned out to be a boulder of uranium, go figure
If you're going to use a super strong magnet, you may want to have a sheet of rubber on the surface, otherwise you could cause your target to fracture upon impact with the magnet.
My uncle was a rock hound and one time I found a rock and he said it was a leverite. He said I should 'leave her rite' where it laid.
Ric Trexell ,sir why would he tell you that, and is that particular rock a rock that was worth anything.
Ric Trexell
Wish someone would have told me that about the ex wife. Leave 'er right where I found 'er....lol
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lol...Sounds like good advice👌 from experience.
And there's another rock named a "Goofer". Goo' fer nothing at all.
I own a piece of the Sikote-Alin meteor! How these fragments from a debris field end up in the hands of collectors all around the world amazes me.
My wife and I found a rock that was much heavier than the surrounding rock and didn't look like the others. It was the deeper brown as you mentioned. It did not pass the magnet test (direct contect pull), but do stoney meteorites still have the iron content enough for the magnet to attract to it?
I always wanted to know just how to tell if
a rock was just a rock or a meteorite. Thank
you for sharing with us all. Blessings !
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What if u found a meteorite on a beach would the surface area be different to a one found on land?
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meteorites can be weathered so the texture test only apply's to them if they are not too badly weathered. my dad knew nothing about meteorites except that they were rocks that fell from space and burnt up in the atmosphere when he saw a dark rock half sticking out of the ground in the Gibson desert he told me that he instantly knew it had fallen from space. he rekons it was just obvious for what ever reason. he dug it up and carried it in his back pack 5 km to his car. the fucking thing weighed 14kg hahaha. me and my sister where young and had done a shorter walk with my mum so we missed out. it was still one of the coolest days of my life. my dad and i have been obsessed with meteorites ever since. despite looking we haven't found any since hahaha. we donated it to the Australian Museum in sydney and are eagerly weighting to hear what information they can tell us about it. some sit in plane sight and are easy to identify and others blend in with terrestrial rocks its all just luck.
@@dyslexiusmaximus Hey. Any updates? Can I see a picture?
No, but it would have a better tan
I need to show some pictures somewhere..?
I live in Needles, cali, we live in the desert Me and my 2 kids, like to rock collect, and this video helped me teach my kids that we were now searching for treasure. thanks so much, we have a lot of stones that pass all three tests...... Now what????
Now what? You put them in your ears, mouth and nose and you become extraterrestrial.
Hey I found something on a Beach in New England what has a lot of the features of a meteorite but could also be a slag. Would you be able to take a peek on some pics?
I knew a place where there were literally hundreds of them--but they were all small and were pretty much metallic fragments. Magnets pick them up, and erosion leaves them on the surface. They are almost 100% iron.
Some of them are a mixture of iron and contain phenolic compounds--we called them carbonaceous chondrites.
I found a rock that was black, and rusted. It had Iron bubbles on it. The top and two sodes were smooth. The underside was like bumpy thumbprints all over it. It was a rock between the size of a small-medium watermelon. It weighed about 15-20 pounds. It was a beautiful rock. I suspected it to be lava rock, because of the ripples underneath. It had alot of iron in it. The fact I found it in the woods in Southern Tennessee, made me curious how a “ lava raovk would be that far away from the nearest active volcanoes( mexico and Hawaii). I left the rock there and have wished a thousand times I would have drilled into it to see what the inside looks like!!!!
Don't forget the volcanoes in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, California, Oregon and Washington. Never cared that much to go back east and look at the geology.
May I ask have you used the Moh's Test against a regular diamond? What type environment and country were they found. I'm a big fan and an enthusiast. I'd love to see more of your findings. And possibly get your take on a few of mine.
Apologies I didn't know it was a meteorite.
Thank you. Enjoy the basic tests. Adds some fun to my fossil hunting in the rare case I see a meteorite.
It is interesting to find an actual meteorite. From what I was told there are instances where a meteorites that do not contain iron. Most do contain some iron. There has been property damage from meteorites. Some have hit and damaged cars, injured and killed people, and damaged buildings.
I found one in the Arivaca Desert of Arizona about 5 years ago. It weighs 32 grams. I just bought a geode kit for my 4 and 5 year old grandsons. get 'em started early.
Meteorite was known as the axes of thunderstorm in Asian. People were buying from Villagers. No more than $100 (US) they are heavy but not too big the same size of Axe.
I have a rock, found at the Bloody Creek Structure in Nova Scotia, Canada, a known multiple impact site. It is heavy for it's size, and has what appears to be a burnt crust on the outside. It is always incredibly magnetic.
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6:04
holy shit. A sleeve an inch away from being sucked in by the belt sander and the frame.
Without water the dust is airborne. Andromeda strain?
it's spinning the other way.
I was metal detecting a old homestead in a farm field and I just happen to go over a rock and it sound of has iron which I dont pay much attention to bu tttg I picked up and it was real heavy brought it home and it draws a magnet to it , it looks a lot like the one you had , so I will do the window test and see what happens , I know it will show the metal flakes because I can see them under a flash light , thanks again .......
I found a gray rock in a tailings pile at an old ghost town silver mining camp in western New Mexico. It's as heavy as a red brick, but only about sixty percent of the size, and it caused my metal detector to ring loud and clear.
It will definitely cause a string-hanging magnet to move, but only very slightly, which leads me to believe that there are other metals within it.
The edges aren't sharp, but they're not smooth, either. That, and the fact of where it was found makes me believe that it's not a meteorite.
Any opinion about what I found would be greatly appreciated.
I found a bead that was totally encased in rock. It had artwork on it and I believe it is made from a piece if an iron meteorite. It is the same size and has the same exact features as one in the Smithsonian institute that came from the meteorite in Anoku, Missouri. It is in very good condition.
What did you do with it?
@@chadlebbing4960 skipped it
I found 2 about 3 years ago and I even seen it when it was falling from the sky.. the bigger one is about the size of a golf ball and the other one is about an 1 1/4 and it comes to somewhat of a point .. but the cool thing about it is that they interlock with one another like a puzzle piece.. and very dense and heavy
u actually watch it fall?
@@jakekostinec4634 if stars fell on Alabama in 1833. we sure have rocks like them!
This guy is a joke. #1: Not all meteorites will attract a magnet. #2: Some meteorites have sharp edges and holes/voids ( note at 6:09 in the video where he's sanding on the meteorite and you can plainly can see both sharp edges AND !!! holes/voids ). #3: I've never ground on any of the meteorites I've discovered. To do so devalues them if you're looking to sell.
Thanks for smart commenters like you. Part of the problem with internet is that anyone can post even if their knowledge is lacking, have a good one ReneeNme.
Hes right. Many stony meteorites will not attract a magnet. I wonder how many many meteorites have been thrown away because of goofballs like this guy.
Thats why he said "might" in big caps "passing it MIGHT mean it is a meteorite or an earth rock with iron".
hi sir I have a one metriod and it is completely in round shaped black coloured ball and very heavy and one round shape mark on it. I want to sale this metriod plz help me to sale this stone my Ph no is 09805697481,i can send u picture and it's Waight is more than 500 grams
ReneeNme How much are they usually worth.?
Hello,
very interesting as a video.
Please, I have a question about your magnet:
Can you tell me the strength capacity of your magnet that you used in the test?
Is it: N35, N4 or the strongest N52?
As I will be referring to your test, it will be better to use the same magnet that you have used.
Thank you in advance.
Any magnet works yunis
*Doesn't Lodestone pass these tests yet not a meteorite?* I was digging a pool in my backyard and being a novice collector my son found a few pieces in our otherwise clay dirt, but only a few, and I had (and have) a hard time telling if it is meteorite or Lodestone thus my research here on your video and amateur question.
As a paperboy, I always looked for weird rocks in my customer's driveways. One guy got his gravel from someplace that had a ton of iron pyrite.
Anyhow, I found a small rock ( 1.5" x 4"), that checked all the boxes. When I left home, I left it at my parent's, and have no idea where it went.
Probably sitting in the front or back yard after your dad tossed it out there. ; )
Luckily my rock came threw my roof and ruined my hardwood floor but at lease we know it came from space (weighs about 2lbs) :)
What.? That’s crazy. Was it burning hot?
@@BroncoBob3113 Now that would freak yall out right?
Luvly though.
What if actually the neighbor that lives next door on the 7th floor dosnt like your dog barking every second and grap what ever was insight and flong it😅.)?
Congratulations, you are a very lucky person!
I read everything I can find on the subject of meteorites. One article stated that using a magnet on a meteorite destroys any scientific value that the meteorite would have had. That was about ten years ago. Since then I have never been able to find anything in print that would give
more information on this; whether it is true or not. I have asked two authors of articles on meteorites if this is true. That is if they invited
comments. No response. I wonder if this indicates that no one knows, or if it is known to most likely be true but since it is the most
convenient and widely used way to ID meteorites no one wants to upset the Apple cart, so to speak. So I’m putting it out there: Is it true that exposing a meteorite to a magnet irrevocably changes the meteorite’s structure in some way? If so, are most collectors’ meteorites
useless except as something to simply possess - to handle and to look at or maybe to sell - but nothing else?
The Government blind steals and seals any meteorite identification information constantly. It ties into the 'born poor' theory, where they intentionally remove ANY possibility of low income people striking it rich. Just like how they simply removed the value of bearer bonds, they made them worthless overnight, intentionally, because too many poor people were finding/inheriting them and recieving substantial payouts in return, it infuriated the Government because nobody is supposed to have any money but the Elites. Look it up, bearer bonds are worthless in 2022, and people should have LOST it when they first did that, but hardly anyone knew. I feel as though this Meteorite info debacle is directly related in context, "keep them poor." 🙄
@Protista protista What information is it going to destroy? The alien hard drive inside?
@Protista protista What's wrong Protista, can't comprehend a joke?
I've got a smooth greenish Black Rock I found while scuba diving of the coast near Brunswick GA. Had a friend look at because it was smooth, except a small melted bubble looking spot. It acts like it has some kind of weak magnetic reaction, but I never tried a good magnet on it. My pal tapped it with a tiny rock tool and chipped a price off that I saved and keep it in place with the rock. He seems to think that a few million years ago a volcano chunked it high in to the atmosphere, and it fell back to earth, landing in the ocean. I tried googling it but according to Google, no volcano has ever chunked a rock like that, not is there any signs of any others volcanic activity any where near there. I checked the whole area in the following months.
It has a greenish tint and not rusty.
Do you have a name for a molten volcanic lava that I spit high into the atmosphere and thrown long distances ?
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ارجو ارسال واتس اب او انستجرام لارسال بعض الصور والفيديوهات للتاكد
Any idea of what type of rock has parallel Lines, I will call these A,B,C.. and reference them perceptual as running flat from left to right, just as a playing card laying on a table "_" ( roughly 1/4 thick flat that passes through the Length and Width of the rock). The A.. "//////" Lines appear to be evenly spaced running parallel to each other at about a 45° angle. Then there is another set of lines, B.. "\\\\\\", running parallel to each other, at a constant angle to the set of A.. Lines at roughly 45° . Then there is another set, C.."===="(stacked" Lines that are running parallel to each other at 0° to the A.. and B.. Line sets.. Finally running Vertically there are another set of Lines that run top to bottom , side to side as if a playing card standing on its side to the initial flat card , "■■(each is one solid vertical piece running the full Height and Width of the Rock, spaced about 2 inches from each other with A,B,C, pathing through them.
Easier .. Criss Cross Pieces fused together at equal angles making lots of little triangles and Horizontal pieces running top to bottom and side to side parallel to their partners , spaced about two inches apart front to back through the whole rock.
Then there is what looks like a catastrophic damage that has broken, bent, twisted, sheared, etc the Rock .. Though one side is Flat while the rest of the perimeter is mangled in multiple ways ..
The rock is roughly just over a foot by a foot by 10inches ..
Comparable to if Bees made there Honey Combes in Triangles instead of Hexagon.
While my description should be rewritten or rethought.. Take it as it is please, if you wish to Mock it.. please do it in as Entertainingly and creative as possible, no Systematic Troll hotkey replies" Please.
Another I have questions about is a small boulder that I also liberated as a teenager from a place that doesn't exist so it couldn't matter.. But it was the smallest one of 28 Boulders brought back by the .... from an area about a hundred miles from Mt. McKinley. The thing that made this Boulder interesting is the drill hole in it, drilled perfectly only six or so inches but on a far from level surface. The hole and drill marks are identical to the ones in Egypt.
I also have another piece from that area that looks like a piece of Jade with a gold nugget in the center.
I've wanted to have someone tell me what this rock is for awhile now. Probably just a rock and rocks but I really liked their appearance. There's more to it all but probably just good for the campfire stories..
Any help or point in the right direction would be appreciated..
It's strange to me that every meteor is ferrous or sticks to a magnet. Arent there other types of (non ferrous) rocks out there that can re-enter the atmosphere?
Yes
Achondrites
I was digging when a very ordinary looking, smoother, dark, rock stuck to my shovel. It was actually quite a powerful magnetic stone. I still have it because I thought it to be a meteorite.
Wow
I think it’s called a ‘lode stone’?
@@TheGreatest1974 I believe it could be lode stone. But there was no magnatite around. It may still be lode stone. It just would seem there would be more magnetite and lode stone than just one round fragment.
Dont let this be the only info that you get on the subject.
Yeah lunar and Martian meteorites aren’t magnetic
Yeah, im not too sure about meteorites having no holes either...watch the 10 most expensive meteorites....
hes wrong about moldavite/agnimanitite
Does the grinding test destroy value on a possible small meteorite?
Hello Sir,I have found a same stone with all the features shown in video,what should I do now???
I collect Iron Pyrite nodules I really like them, their shape etc not magnetic though unless my magnet is poor but presumably there is iron in the Pyrites or the name, well you know.
Meteorites don't have holes you said. But they can have small pin-sized holes that looks like they have been poked by a needle or something
JadenVlotman no
well said
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Great video and info. Short and sweet and to the point.
Exactly
I found a 500 plus pound plus meteorite in a creek, had no iron. Had definite signs of heating and hydraulic plucking from entry into the atmosphere. Too big to carry out and definitely solid stone. No other stones in the creek has the same shape
depends on where you are looking... because not all meteorites are the result of random space rocks falling from the sky... there are several major impact zones around the Planet.. including here in Arizona and New Mexico where I live... so the stuff goes up... into the fringes of space... reaching zero velocity and falls back down.. but high enough to fall fast enough to cause ablation and heat scorching.. and generally a rounded bottom with the heavy side leading.. an area near Safford, Arizona where I was looking for opal is chock full of them... it's just a bit west of the actual impact.
that's where they came down... en masse so to speak
Can somebody help me out? My cottage is in Parry Sound Ontario and was built over huge rocks. Rock every where. I have a spot where I can park a car any car and after two three days the car will be hard to start and dead battery every time? Is the cottage sitting on $$$ lol just asking. Also the spot parked on is over earth not visible stone.
Heads Up
Buy a new battery and quit leaving your interior lights on!
could u buy large rubber mats and drive car onto mats?
Parked under a power line ?
katz person aren't cars on rubber tires?
If you drop something made of iron or steel, is it difficult to pick up? If not, go to WalMart Auto Center, they will test your battery for no cost.
3:46 "failing the magnet test means it is NOT a meteorite". Not true.
Why not true you mean all meteorite are magnetic
no, that's what he's saying. some meteorites are not magnetic.
they are extremely rare but still saying that is simply wrong; I understand why it's the general rule saying that but don't like it.
Yes and the non magnetic meteorites are worth the most
Well, i can tell you here in Chile, in a Small Town called German Village, i found on my Mother's backyard a very heavy chunk of Black rock. I ve always believed it is a meteorite. We dont Know how that rock came or fell DOWN, neither when. One Day it just appeared on The ground. This rock is black, very smooth, holeless, and extraordinarily heavy. We always joke with visitors, we give the rock for them to see, without saying how heavy it is, and we laugh when we see their hands fall to the ground.
Are these valuable if you find them? Does size/type change the value? Who do I contact to sell/appraise/validate them? Thanks.
Someone once showed me a meteorite that had been polished and etched. This one was almost entirely metal and showed tremendous twinning of the microstructure.
i found one in Massachusetts that is magnetic, has some textures of fusion crust in it, and i found in a place where a meteorite hit but it has holes in it. i found it on a beach so could that have caused the holes to emerge? it has the rust and everything but i know for a fact i don't have any volcanoes here. someone please help
Aidan Murray Sounds like slag.
Thank you for doing this! At least I have a place to start.
There are meteorites that have very little to no iron (mars and moon meteorites), however, they are very rare, and very hard to differentiate from other more common meteorites. If you have a fusion crust, but it is not magnetic, this does not mean its a meteor-wrong, just that its 99% possible not a meteorite.
Could I send you some pictures of what I have I would like other people's views and opinions Thankyou
The ONLY way a meteorite could be from the moon or Mars would be if either of them were hit by another space rock OF a VERY VERY VERY large size. ..
We are having difficulties determining whether this is a meteorite that we have or if it is not it is very hard to cut into we use the commercial grade saw ain't even got new blades and it's still hard to cut into it doesn't have the flakes like you shown in your video but it has a solid like a stainless steel type of texture and color and we usually cut into many things how many types of metals at a scrap yard that my friend owns so he's not used to seeing anything like this that has such dance mass
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Drs a lot meteorites in the philippines..huge giant rock so whats the benefits? How much
I test mine and I can barley get the magnet off. Mine has like lots of finger prints dips and very heavy I've had this rocks since 1965 found them in backyard by the Mojave desert.
Fallout
But how do you know meteorites always have iron?
Not all do, but 99.5% have iron and nickle in them.
always fun to acquire information you'll never use in your life
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+Kidney Thief are you kidding me? university's buy those things. some for a few bucks, others for thousands of dollars
Richard Mcginnis I'll let you know when I find a meteorite in the middle of the city
+Kidney Thief good luck finding one! Wait, you can't. you don't know how to identify it. But its probably fine, you may encounter one worth thousands, and through your vast intelect you can magically know its a meteorite!! You truly are the chosen one. no need for stupid videos like this!
they look almost like rail road slag. and this isn't a useless video for those who have the time to go looking, i have never found one but i do live by the ocean and have found ambergris. though you can't sell it in america you can ship it to other countries that still have no laws against it
Great teacher . I love how you get straight to the point, please if possible create and upload how to spot gold fools gold how to do simple test on diamonds fools diamonds thx greetings from southern California ( Hemet ..
Mine is burning. We digged it. Is there a way that I can show you? We used a grinder but it's too hard & heavy. We used torched. It's burning on some part but it fades when torch is off. We used a hammer. The hammer is broken now. We threw it hard. The floor is broken but the stone is not. I used steel brush, golden & silvery like came out. I keep brushing it but still glittery.
I just attended an 8:5 minute geology class on meteorites now im ready to conquer the universe (:
Almost got hit by a big rock falling from the sky that was like a fire ball is this a meteor
My friend is a rock hound every time he gets paid he goes into the hood looking for a couple of rocks
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I watched a Meteorite fall in my front yard years ago and found it, it had a very sulphurous smell and was magnetic...
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Olá companheiro. Eu tenho um canal no RUclips: Leon detectorismo e nesta minha pesquisa achei, um ferro parecendo com meteorito. Pois como faço pra vende-lo? Obrigado!
We found 1 in a 10ft round crater in Nevada county CA. It was 3 pieces . It filled a 5 gal. Bucket over half way. He put it in storage.
Simple:
Rock fall from sky - meteorite
Rock not fall from sky - not meteorite
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rock fall from sky but was blow in to sky from earth
grim reaper Rock blow from earth no rock from sky, which makes no meteorite. Is phony meterorite.
+1337fraggzb00N it starts out as an asteroid then upon entering earth's atmosphere its then known as a meterite
KristaL Mac LeoD asteroids are space rocks coming into earth that are comprised of stone like material. Meteorites are comprised of metal.
Christopher Wright sry chris. she is right. meteorites occur as both irons and stones.
30-40,000 miles an hour??? How far do you have to dig to find them???
not set amount, depends on how old, what substrate it is in as a whole host of other factors. Sometimes you can find them sitting on the surface. Look up micro-meteorites and how you can find your own in your own back yard
Kevin Kondrath
One time I dug so deep the Chinese said I needed a visa if I went any farther!
once in atmosphere, gravity takes over so 200 mph like speed of golf ball. They bounce and can be found right on the surface.
IF the meteorite had broke apart when it hit, couldnt it have sharp edges after impact?
It would still be molten when it hit so the drops of meteorite would not be sharp when they harden.
I found one in a stream bed, it was the only one of its kind within a few acres (I was looking for specific stones) it has a bluish tint almost like peacock ore. I read online that it may have water and organic compounds. I’m not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions?
Question is: does it have a price like some other minerals?
Well it depends, but sometime it price is much much more than other minerals.
wow. so many flaws in your reasoning. not all meteorites are nickel-iron. could be olivine meteorites to even just some other non-ferrous metal.
Olivine has iron in it.
olivine and nickel-iron are two completely different materials, the iron in olivine is non magnetic
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As a kid I collected a lot of stones that are magnetic, this can help me find a meteorite!
I dated a girl that passed all those tests, I knew she was from mars!!!
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Might you make a note of Widmanstätten patterns?
How about radioactivity? Are they ever radioactive or dangerous? Thanks!
Nice info video, I've learned a lot from this.
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"hematite is a common METEORWRONG." lol
I lasted nearly 3 minutes before his voice put me into a coma
I saw a rock at the Grand Canyon that said it was a meteorite. It was a pretty good size but nothing like I haven't rolled over before, but it was so heavy, as if it were attached to a 30 foot rod in the ground. So is that actually a thing? Does what it weigh factor into it at all? I have never seen a rock that size I couldn't move.
Hoping you answer questions and can help me. My brother lives in AZ about 40 miles from the border. While 4 wheeling in the desert he found what I believe to be a meteorite. It's about the size of a football but VERY heavy and black. He keeps it in his garden as a decoration, but, I don't think it should be out in the elements. What are your thoughts and who can he go to to get it tested and find out the value?
Gem shows might help
Do those test first you watched in the video.
Thanks for the string idea ♥
That's what I said about the tampon
Thank you for the information. Mine passed all the test. Woo hoo. now what! lol
If only 30-40% of meteorites have Fe (ferrous, or iron), then you are still missing 60-70٪ of meteroites.
Duh
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I am praying that everyone who takes this picture will help them in whatever way they can
I was mettle detecting once, & it was just a rock. Now I’m curious!!!! I layed the heavy rock on its side, & the magnet was basically torn out of my hand & is still stuck to it hard, so definitely iron! ??? Deep brown, found in a dried river bed.