Found one!!
fastrudy
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For those who look down.
I was on a dirt road, not far from home, driving my motorcycle. A large truck was coming down the road, which was only one lane. Inasmuch as the truck had more momentum than me, I wisely pulled off the side of this road, allowing the truck to pass. When it did, a giant cloud of dust kicked up and enveloped me. So I closed my eyes, looked down and held my breath until I thought the cloud had passed. When I opened my eyes, I spotted a rock, half buried on the side of the road. The setting sun was hitting it at a low angle and the top surface of the rock had small, shallow depressions in it. I got off the bike and pried the rock out of the dirt. It was about the size of a hand, heavy for its size. I noticed a thin crust on the rock, and it was black where the crust had chipped off. I opened my glove compartment and extracted my neodynium magnet that I always carry for this moment (I know, I'm a big science head). The magnet stuck to the rock!! I had found a meteorite!! My first! I was 90% certain. Dense, solid, no crystals, no layering, fusion crust, regmaglyphs(those tell-tale thumbprints) & magnetic. Brought it home and washed it off, checked it again and visited some websites (one had pictures of meteorites and meteorwrongs). Have an astronomer coming over next week for verification. I passed my metal detector over it and it detected metal. I switched the detector to "coin" mode and it detected it as a nickel. This is significant, because the US 5-cent piece contains the element nickel, but not enough to make it magnetic. Meteorites are rich in iron and nickel. So now I am 95% sure.
I was on a dirt road, not far from home, driving my motorcycle. A large truck was coming down the road, which was only one lane. Inasmuch as the truck had more momentum than me, I wisely pulled off the side of this road, allowing the truck to pass. When it did, a giant cloud of dust kicked up and enveloped me. So I closed my eyes, looked down and held my breath until I thought the cloud had passed. When I opened my eyes, I spotted a rock, half buried on the side of the road. The setting sun was hitting it at a low angle and the top surface of the rock had small, shallow depressions in it. I got off the bike and pried the rock out of the dirt. It was about the size of a hand, heavy for its size. I noticed a thin crust on the rock, and it was black where the crust had chipped off. I opened my glove compartment and extracted my neodynium magnet that I always carry for this moment (I know, I'm a big science head). The magnet stuck to the rock!! I had found a meteorite!! My first! I was 90% certain. Dense, solid, no crystals, no layering, fusion crust, regmaglyphs(those tell-tale thumbprints) & magnetic. Brought it home and washed it off, checked it again and visited some websites (one had pictures of meteorites and meteorwrongs). Have an astronomer coming over next week for verification. I passed my metal detector over it and it detected metal. I switched the detector to "coin" mode and it detected it as a nickel. This is significant, because the US 5-cent piece contains the element nickel, but not enough to make it magnetic. Meteorites are rich in iron and nickel. So now I am 95% sure.
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Yes please! The more the merrier! Nice find!!! Where did you find it? I am guessing NY from your profile... I have 2 (I think) that I found myself and a couple of others from eBay that I am pretty sure are frauds but still interesting.
Thanks for sharing!
Rick
1836 Capped Liberty
dime. My oldest US
detecting find so far.
I dig almost every
signal I get for the most
part. Go figure...