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

[save children]

Hi

There are several ways to ID a meteorite. Not all are magnetic as some are 
what are called stoney. I am including a link to a good site which has info 
which might help. There is generally melting indication on the surface. 
There is several indicators. I was thinking that it is just easy to find 
dark rocks on the surface of white. They also search ice sheets in the artic 
and antartic. there the ice flows to concentrate them.

http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-information.htm

Charlie Wittman, Director, Advocates for Children and Families, TheACF, on 
BOD of AFRA, CCHR Board of Advisors, theacf at hotmail.com ,
PO Box 10, Los Gatos, CA 95031, 408 395 6999 ACF Hotline
Main ACF WWW site:: http://www.theacf.org
CRIN: http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1774
AFRA: http://familyrightsassociation.com/
CCHR: www.cchr.org
LUNAR #1405, http://www.lunar.org/
Aero-Pac # ________  http://www.aeropac.org
NAR [L1] #85655, http://www.nar.org/
Tripoli [L1} #11202
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----Original Message Follows----
From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern)
To: save children <theacf at hotmail.com>
CC: br-crater at thunder.net
Subject: Re: [BR-Crater] BR-Crater Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:28:18 -0700

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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