Did I Find a Meteorite How to identify a REAL meteorite or meteor WRONG Sudbury Crater Canada, Chat
This week s Meteorite Crew hangout is great for newbies and rockhounds. We discuss how to distinguish a meteorite from a meteorwrong. What are the features of a terrestrial rock vs a real meteorite and what do they tell us (Fusion crust, desert varnish, trapped sand, regmaglypts, visible chondrules, weathering) We discuss slag and how to ID it. Mike Kelly helps us by showing some of his meteorwrongs and a scratch test. First, we start off with a visit with Fred McPherson in Canada. He shows us some great Canadian pride with his impactites from Sudbury Crater. He has multiple types of impact breccia and shattercones. On to the real stuff Take a rare tour of some on my personal collection including Erg Chech 002, hammer stones, birthday falls, and a 1. 5kg slice of SaintAubin (French Iron). We also see Bruces beautiful 42g Howardite slice (NWA 12227), and Rons Gebel Kamil with wings Is your Iron meteorite rusting We discussed both the chemical bath and reve
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