[BR-Crater] BR-Crater Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4

[Heather Stern]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:48:22AM +0000, save children wrote:
> Thanks for the interesting material. You mentioned a magnetic rock. Has 
> anyone done a survey of the more remote ie high dry lake beds looking for 
> meteorites. It seems these places would be a good place to look for them.

The closest likely we have among the samples so far, is that a friend of
mine who didn't come but gave me some fine smoked salmon to encourage us,
asked me to bring him back a Black Rock or some sort from the black rock
desert.

The rock that I gave him was a little larger than my closed fist (I'm small)
and could be meteoric iron, though for the following reasons we didn't test
it thoroughly:
  * I was picking up loose rock, and taking photos of loose rock, for a 
    general sense of the area rather than a geologic proof by stationary
    location.  I still have all the loose-pocket samples set aside in a box.
  * It wasn't the kind of black rock I'd really wanted to give him.  Out on
    the open playa the very few rocks on average are a deep charcoal color
    with occasional white flecks.
  * It was very uniform; we were looking for breccias and other transition
    rock.

He proudly keeps it at his desk though.  I could ask him if it seems to be
at all magnetic.

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