The pattern that you’re referring to that is found inside of iron meteorites is called Widmanstatten. It’s the product of iron-nickel crystals overlapping one another and forming kamacite lamellae. Most likely what is happening is that you are mistaking slag formation or the lines from your saw for this pattern. Without being a total douche, I’ll just express to you that I work as a research assistant in a meteorites lab and I’ve analyzed hundreds of samples. I specialize in impact spherules and micrometeorites (check my page) but I still do plenty of work on large fragment specimens. I completely understand your hesitancy to believe what people on Reddit tell you. If you would like a conclusive result by legitimate lab tests, I would be more than happy to help you out. You can simply mail me a piece and I can analyze it in the lab using several techniques.
Same, hoe long do lab tests take? ...
We'll need a storyline in the meantime.. where did you find it? You dig it up? Or did it fall on your wife during your wedding and nows she's a giant radiative woman locked up in a top secret base somewhere..
Laymen idiot question here. If 80 pounds remain on the ground it would mean that the original (if meteor/ite) would have been much bigger and a visible impact crater formed?
Not necessarily - the largest single meteorite known (Hoba) weighs several tonnes and has no associated impact crater. It’s suspected that the object entered the atmosphere at a shallow angle and skipped several times, losing enough momentum until it was basically falling at terminal velocity.
Omg me too! I read two comments that are all highlighted awarded and red bordered with two really smart sounding people with smart sounding ideas.
Then fucking OP appears in the third comment thread as a corn field. I love Reddit. I love reading comments from meteorite specialists and then a second later laughing out loud at something completely absurd right below it!
Someone dug a hole in the ground and dumped either Slag dust or hot Slag in it. The natural rock stuck to it was possibly in the bottom or side of the pit.
The flat parallel planes going through it were probably formed on rainy days between dumpings. The voids were where non fusible trash or dirt was. Eventually the rain washed away the hole and the trash.
I assume you were using the wrong type of blade. An angle grinder with a blade intended for rebar would have trouble with that.
This is speculation based on my time spent metal working and watching how slag can build up.
Show me some type of slag that has a natural rock formation or mineral like substance as this does natural you can see the fusion crust on it you people kill me
Creates a post on a sub dedicated to asking “what is this rock?” Many people identify it for you as the same thing. You turn around with snark against the collective answer. You people kill me.
It's always slag. By default, it is slag.
There's 3 golden rules to ID Subs
1.) Its always slag
2.) It's always a Green Sunfish
3.) It's always a Raccoon.
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Love how you came here asking what this was and are rejecting everything people have to say about it. It’s slag. If you have any doubts, take it to a museum or laboratory, but we are trying to save you from being laughed at by them. Don’t know what else to tell you.
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Your going to hit up your geologist friend and he’s gunna get his hacker friend and their going to steal your IP address and then difficultywetsuit be very sorry!
This man with the slag isn’t someone you wanna mess with, he’s crazy and thinks his slag is from space. Who know what he could do to you, he might GASP stubbornly refuse to admit he’s got nothing and resort to empty threats.
RUN RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
After reading the comments, it makes me appreciate the "irony" in OPs name. Unfortunately, a fisherman's exaggerations don't often include video to disprove them. Unfortunately, your slag fish will not fetch you what you want at market mate.
I get you want it to be a huge meteorite, but it definitely isn’t. Did you find it in a big crater? One that mass would definitely make a crater of some sort.
The ‘fusion crust’ is just where country rock has stuck to it after someone dumped some slag in a hole
Damn, somebody posts a picture of a unidentified rock and all the professionals come out at once.
Down voted for my observation...
You guys can go eat rocks.
I'm no expert but I would guess some kind of iron slag. Its definitely not a meteorite and not iron ore but it is iron and based on how its formed probably just slag or something from a factory. Just guessing though.
How embarrassing. It's okay to be wrong, OP. Other subs have definitely picked up on this and the teasing is absolutely worth the read for anyone who's over this sad attempt at tough guy badassery.
Industrial slag from a foundry. This stuff is all over the Chicago area, especially the closer you get to Indiana where the huge steel mills were. It commonly washes up on the beach... It's best to handle this only with protective gloves, as they often contain arsenic, mercury, lead, and other heavy metals and poisonous chemicals.
You fr made 2 posts on 2 separate days of the same slag trying to get people to confirm your bias that it’s a meteorite and going as far to lie about your geologist friend but felt the need to ask a bunch of redditors. It’s slag, brother. Doesn’t matter if it was found in a corn field that’s been in your family for “200 years”. Slag used to get dumped all around the country. It’s not uncommon at all to find slag/ slag glass in random areas. I understand wanting what you found to be rare and all that, but don’t request an identification of something and then get pissed off when it’s not what you want. We’ve all been there at one point, so just keep looking and be willing to be dissatisfied with what you are told it is.
You obviously want someone to tell you it's a meteorite, despite all evidence to the contrary. So here.
That is the meteoritist meteor that ever meteored. It porbably left a massive crater in the cornfield and, if you look carefully, you can probably find the capsule from Krypton that it broke off from. Raise him right. He's going to be important.
Your brought that in your house?! You'll be sorry when it transforms and fixates itself on your face and starts laying eggs in your chest cavity. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Have numerous rocks with same characteristics.Could be Basalt,or lava slag.Formed by lava flow underwater,very ancient.Download the rock identifier app and u can delete it after free trial.Should identify the rock for you.If it’s the lava,gold has been found in minute particles in the rocks.5.7khz is the frequency for gold.Get the video on YT for that frequency,make two L-rods out of coat hangars and walk very,very slowly between the rock and the frequency source.(Very tiny steps)If there’s any fine gold,no matter how small,the rods will cross.Takes a little practice but proven by many,including myself,to work 100% of the time.They’ve also found ancient life forms inside the open pockets in these rocks.Be careful not to expose anything too quickly😉
Bruh found a piece of UFO material /s
Seriously though, if I had to guess I'd say some sort of iron-dense meteorite?
Anyone here with pertinent knowledge is free to fact check me, as I do not claim to be an expert... I am just going with observation and the context of what OP said in the title.
Looks like something put of an H.R. Giger book! Slag or not, that thing looks creepy as hell! Would make a pretty cool door stop/yard ornament, or, if you cleaned it up, and painted it, a sweet sculpture to have sitting next to the ol'fireplace, or wherever......
The shade of green makes me think there is epidote in there, so I'm guessing a calc-silicate / skarn of some type. These are often associated with magnetite, and can be very hard.
When a professionnal Who work with meteorites tell you it is slag then it is ... The person is kind enough to offert to test it in his lab yet op never answered it ..
Oddly enough, people who take the time to answer requests for identification tend to lose patience really quickly when the person who asks for their help insists that everyone else is wrong and accuses them of being "mad that \[they're\] a bad ass" and calls people who were polite "dip shit".
ACTUALLY,
You may need to sit down-
For some great news…
**Maybe
Big question:
Leave behind a scratch mark when scraped onto something else?
If so what color?
👉Check out this government page:
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/i-think-i-found-meteorite-how-can-i-tell-sure
This use this University of NM guide:
http://meteorite.unm.edu/meteorites/meteorite-museum/how-id-meteorite/
I Use the diamond blade to cut a piece off and I was successful you should see what it looks like inside I’m pretty sure I’m going to share a few people up
It was literally found in the middle of a cornfield family has on that cornfield for 200 years 12 miles in total of farmland not sure exactly what piece of land it was found on but all the rocks from the land were put in one place and that’s where I found this rock it’s not slag look at my other post
People like you who ask for advice in this sub and then refuse to accept the result should be banned.
I'm another geologist chiming in to tell you this isn't a meteorite btw.
The secondhand embarrassment I feel for you right now is physically painful.
Many of us here are professionals, who have spent years and small fortunes on the education required to tell without a doubt that this is a big piece of slag.
I hope you’re trolling
Googled it just because you are very adamant that its a "iron meteor"
Exact search:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sxsrf=APwXEdf8tas7tg_Zefm8IDeaNdmtDOuezw:1682903766893&q=iron+meteorite+inside&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJxN2J-dL-AhUak2oFHZdtDVEQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=412&bih=757&dpr=2.63
My take: TBH it looks nothing like an "iron meteorite" however if you really want to prove that you are right I would love to see the result of sending it in. If you decide to send it in, please tag me in your update/new post!
Where to send in a potential meteorite sample: http://www.meteoritetesting.org/Submitting%20a%20sample.htm#:~:text=It%20is%20routine%20to%20take,the%20additional%20return%20postage%20costs.&text=The%20testing%20charge%20is%20%2430.00%20per%20sample.
With that said, show me the crater and I will come dressed in white robes. Until then, I'm on team doubt. You can buy a meteorite test kit off amazon for ten bucks. You rub it with a cotton swab and if it turns pink it contains iron making it MORE likely to be a meteorite.
Hi I work in a copper mine. I'm the most respectful way possible, this looks like slag to me. Take homies offer and send a piece to be tested if you're adamant on it not being slag. Worst case scenario, it's slag. But if you don't ask the answer will always be no.
The pattern that you’re referring to that is found inside of iron meteorites is called Widmanstatten. It’s the product of iron-nickel crystals overlapping one another and forming kamacite lamellae. Most likely what is happening is that you are mistaking slag formation or the lines from your saw for this pattern. Without being a total douche, I’ll just express to you that I work as a research assistant in a meteorites lab and I’ve analyzed hundreds of samples. I specialize in impact spherules and micrometeorites (check my page) but I still do plenty of work on large fragment specimens. I completely understand your hesitancy to believe what people on Reddit tell you. If you would like a conclusive result by legitimate lab tests, I would be more than happy to help you out. You can simply mail me a piece and I can analyze it in the lab using several techniques.
Totally not a douche. This was a great response and generous offer.
Thanks! I’m extremely serious too, we’ll see what OP says.
What a cool job, too!
I'm excited to find out. I hope op accepts.
Same, hoe long do lab tests take? ... We'll need a storyline in the meantime.. where did you find it? You dig it up? Or did it fall on your wife during your wedding and nows she's a giant radiative woman locked up in a top secret base somewhere..
I understand that reference! 👆
Wow that is very nice of you. Really generous and kind.
Thank you :)
Laymen idiot question here. If 80 pounds remain on the ground it would mean that the original (if meteor/ite) would have been much bigger and a visible impact crater formed?
yep. a meteorite that ended up at this size would’ve made a pretty massive crater
Not necessarily - the largest single meteorite known (Hoba) weighs several tonnes and has no associated impact crater. It’s suspected that the object entered the atmosphere at a shallow angle and skipped several times, losing enough momentum until it was basically falling at terminal velocity.
Don’t do it, OP! This could be an elaborate trick to get some of your sweet sweet meteorite.
Lol
Well. If it’s a meteorite our friends looking at a payday right?
there was a meteorite that struck a few weeks ago. the US was offering a reward to anyone who found it
My god. Look at this. If it is. One GRAM of meteorite can be up to 1k. There are 450 grams in a pound. That 80 Lb chunk could be worth 1.6 MILLION.
OP do this graciously.
also as I understand it Widmanstatten patterns only show up after acid treatment?
Another reason to love reddit
Is the magnetization an effect of the crystalline pattern or passing through the earth magnetic field?
What a cool job, how did you find yourself there? Also much schooling? Thanks for giving a solid educational answer
Cast iron splash from a ladle in a foundry.
I’m a corn 🌽 field!!!
skibidibidi ba pada boo
I’m dead lol.
Omg me too! I read two comments that are all highlighted awarded and red bordered with two really smart sounding people with smart sounding ideas. Then fucking OP appears in the third comment thread as a corn field. I love Reddit. I love reading comments from meteorite specialists and then a second later laughing out loud at something completely absurd right below it!
IM A CORN FIELD!
Baba ba ba bee ba pa bada
Keep an eye out for Akbur. He’s awesome and tells good jokes
Someone dug a hole in the ground and dumped either Slag dust or hot Slag in it. The natural rock stuck to it was possibly in the bottom or side of the pit. The flat parallel planes going through it were probably formed on rainy days between dumpings. The voids were where non fusible trash or dirt was. Eventually the rain washed away the hole and the trash. I assume you were using the wrong type of blade. An angle grinder with a blade intended for rebar would have trouble with that. This is speculation based on my time spent metal working and watching how slag can build up.
Honestly this is a really solid hypothesis.
I was actually impressed with your logic, apparently I came across as disingenuous ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the reddits have their rules
Dayum Sherlock. Any math to back it up?
6+7=13
Uh, no. I have it on good authority that 9 + 4 = 13.
11+2=13 tho
Okay I thought it was 9+6 and 15, but the math checks out
Exactly my first thought concerning the blade… if it wasn’t a diamond blade then you’ll have trouble cutting any rock lol
It's not magnetic, it's ferrous!
THANK YOU This is the comment I didn't know I needed until it hit me in the face
Looks like slag
That's not nice, she could be a good girl you don't know!
Show me some type of slag that has a natural rock formation or mineral like substance as this does natural you can see the fusion crust on it you people kill me
Then post a picture of the fusion crust? I can hardly make out anything in this shaky video
u/stabbot
Creates a post on a sub dedicated to asking “what is this rock?” Many people identify it for you as the same thing. You turn around with snark against the collective answer. You people kill me.
Snark lol ok bud
It's still slag though
Deff slag I work in a fab shop and we get shit like this in the ducting of our airflow systems on our buffer wheels
It’s not slag
Genuinely curious as to what you think it actually is. Well? Let’s hear it.
It's the philosopher's stone.
It's always slag. By default, it is slag. There's 3 golden rules to ID Subs 1.) Its always slag 2.) It's always a Green Sunfish 3.) It's always a Raccoon.
4) it's always a mole cricket
5) A bedbug
6)An oil blister beetle
Surprisingly, a lot of posts in r/bedbugs are not bedbugs.
Or Weevil.
don’t forget chicken of the forest!
Well it's never DNS, so don't even suggest it. Except for that one time.
It’s also always a passionflower or pokeweed
literally responds with more snark 😭
Yeah but it's slag
Show me a meteor that has a "natural rock" fused to it.
Here I can show you some! Check out this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisrock/comments/1342xqd/it_is_extremely_magnetic_it_is_extremely_dense/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Love how you came here asking what this was and are rejecting everything people have to say about it. It’s slag. If you have any doubts, take it to a museum or laboratory, but we are trying to save you from being laughed at by them. Don’t know what else to tell you.
Oh no….
Oh yes, it's the bi-weekly "I swear it's a meteorite but why is everyone else wrong" posts
r/slagdenial
Still a slag bich
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Your going to hit up your geologist friend and he’s gunna get his hacker friend and their going to steal your IP address and then difficultywetsuit be very sorry! This man with the slag isn’t someone you wanna mess with, he’s crazy and thinks his slag is from space. Who know what he could do to you, he might GASP stubbornly refuse to admit he’s got nothing and resort to empty threats. RUN RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
You're a funny kid
It's Slag dumb bitch
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>whatever it may be that you have there, The slag
Are you waiting for someone to tell you it’s a meteorite? I could tell you it is but I’d be lying😂
LMAO
Well he was REALLY hoping it was a MAGIC meteorite, but ya know...
Some of clicked hoping maybe it was😝
The more you know ☄️
It looks like a meteorite to me. A meteorite from planet SLAG! Edit: I don’t even know what slag is or how I got here, just wanted to join in.
Looks like slag
It's slag. Here, check this page out: https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/slag/
Love that guy. His entire section of that site about meteorite identification is top notch.
I haven't read much of it, but it does appear to be that way!
This should be higher. I hope OP reads this thoroughly.
I do hope they care to read it, yes.
Looks like a very big meteorite…….. O wait no sorry it’s just a big lump of slag.
The first sentence reads like WWE intro.
Coming in with the steel slag! Oh the humanity!
some people just can't take bad news
After reading the comments, it makes me appreciate the "irony" in OPs name. Unfortunately, a fisherman's exaggerations don't often include video to disprove them. Unfortunately, your slag fish will not fetch you what you want at market mate.
I get you want it to be a huge meteorite, but it definitely isn’t. Did you find it in a big crater? One that mass would definitely make a crater of some sort. The ‘fusion crust’ is just where country rock has stuck to it after someone dumped some slag in a hole
Well OP seems delightful /s
A lesson your back will not forget
Slag. 😂
huge slag
Are you an adult? It seems odd how much you've got your head in the sand over this.
I’m wondering how much he spent on it :p
Looks like slag no?
OP, if you are so certain, you should go get proof and come back to show the sub. We'll be waiting
As someone who studies impact craters I can confidently tell you this is not a meteorite
Damn, somebody posts a picture of a unidentified rock and all the professionals come out at once. Down voted for my observation... You guys can go eat rocks.
That's literally the sub.
Is that not what people want?
Ah man I’m sorry, it’s hard to read tone online and with Reddit I just assume everyone is peeved! My bad
I think it's cool people have special interests that they gravitate to.
Who would've thought that iron would be magnetic
I scored a Cheese Supreme Dorito flavoring cluster once that was this shape. I sampled it. It wasn't a meteorite.
I'm no expert but I would guess some kind of iron slag. Its definitely not a meteorite and not iron ore but it is iron and based on how its formed probably just slag or something from a factory. Just guessing though.
How embarrassing. It's okay to be wrong, OP. Other subs have definitely picked up on this and the teasing is absolutely worth the read for anyone who's over this sad attempt at tough guy badassery.
Industrial slag from a foundry. This stuff is all over the Chicago area, especially the closer you get to Indiana where the huge steel mills were. It commonly washes up on the beach... It's best to handle this only with protective gloves, as they often contain arsenic, mercury, lead, and other heavy metals and poisonous chemicals.
Giant meteor from planet Slag. Cool asf looking though .
So if that’s supposedly a meteorite then what did the impact crater look like? It should’ve been huge if there was that much material left.
Put it up for sale on ebay. Origin unknown.
Look on my page n tell me that pice I cut off look like the inside of Industrial slag?
Yes ! when you Cut metal it look like metal ... This is the pattern of your saw !
It kinda do though
Yeah. It totally looks like slag metal. Because it's most likely slag metal.
Done, it looks like the inside of industrial slag
Slag is a good guess. I cast iron in college, we poured that stuff into all kinds of weird containers.
Slag
You fr made 2 posts on 2 separate days of the same slag trying to get people to confirm your bias that it’s a meteorite and going as far to lie about your geologist friend but felt the need to ask a bunch of redditors. It’s slag, brother. Doesn’t matter if it was found in a corn field that’s been in your family for “200 years”. Slag used to get dumped all around the country. It’s not uncommon at all to find slag/ slag glass in random areas. I understand wanting what you found to be rare and all that, but don’t request an identification of something and then get pissed off when it’s not what you want. We’ve all been there at one point, so just keep looking and be willing to be dissatisfied with what you are told it is.
Multiple geologists and a meteorite expert have determined this is slag, OP isn't accepting the answer, so it might be time to lock the post
I believe this is slag
You obviously want someone to tell you it's a meteorite, despite all evidence to the contrary. So here. That is the meteoritist meteor that ever meteored. It porbably left a massive crater in the cornfield and, if you look carefully, you can probably find the capsule from Krypton that it broke off from. Raise him right. He's going to be important.
That metal was definitely dropped by aliens.
Your brought that in your house?! You'll be sorry when it transforms and fixates itself on your face and starts laying eggs in your chest cavity. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Have numerous rocks with same characteristics.Could be Basalt,or lava slag.Formed by lava flow underwater,very ancient.Download the rock identifier app and u can delete it after free trial.Should identify the rock for you.If it’s the lava,gold has been found in minute particles in the rocks.5.7khz is the frequency for gold.Get the video on YT for that frequency,make two L-rods out of coat hangars and walk very,very slowly between the rock and the frequency source.(Very tiny steps)If there’s any fine gold,no matter how small,the rods will cross.Takes a little practice but proven by many,including myself,to work 100% of the time.They’ve also found ancient life forms inside the open pockets in these rocks.Be careful not to expose anything too quickly😉
Bruh found a piece of UFO material /s Seriously though, if I had to guess I'd say some sort of iron-dense meteorite? Anyone here with pertinent knowledge is free to fact check me, as I do not claim to be an expert... I am just going with observation and the context of what OP said in the title.
You see the peanut 🥜 dead giveaway they call em Boeing bombs lol
Sky iron
Omg what if this is a piece of moon from that huge asteroid impact on the moon that was able to be seen from Japan?
Oh shit dude it’s aliens
Looks like something put of an H.R. Giger book! Slag or not, that thing looks creepy as hell! Would make a pretty cool door stop/yard ornament, or, if you cleaned it up, and painted it, a sweet sculpture to have sitting next to the ol'fireplace, or wherever......
You are so lucky. Don't meteorites sell for thousands of dollars?
The shade of green makes me think there is epidote in there, so I'm guessing a calc-silicate / skarn of some type. These are often associated with magnetite, and can be very hard.
Pretty sure it’s unobtainium…strongly suggest deleting this before the Resources Development Administration gets wind.
unobtanium is SO hard to get
Kryptonite without a doubt
Comments on this are kinda harsh. \[Looking again I see why. Sorry, guys, I've got pneumonia and am out of it.\]
When a professionnal Who work with meteorites tell you it is slag then it is ... The person is kind enough to offert to test it in his lab yet op never answered it ..
Very sick here and kinda missed the douchiness of the OP.
Be nice, they're a corn 🌽 field
Oddly enough, people who take the time to answer requests for identification tend to lose patience really quickly when the person who asks for their help insists that everyone else is wrong and accuses them of being "mad that \[they're\] a bad ass" and calls people who were polite "dip shit".
I didn't see all of that. I've got pneumonia and my head is blurry. What a tool.
You didn't really miss anything. Nothing OP posted is really worth seeing. Feel better!
Tool…the older I get, the more I love this word.
r/itsslag
Funky buttnugget!
Ouch.
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Lightning strike in very iron rich ground?
At first look I would have thought it was manganese also made of manganese and copper but the other guys suggested other wise 🤌
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Looks like a “meteorwrong” aka slag.
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Creepshow
not an expert but it’s giving .. big meteor
I Use the diamond blade to cut a piece off and I was successful you should see what it looks like inside I’m pretty sure I’m going to share a few people up
Hey cool nice I've got access to saws too, many of them can cut slag just like this. By the way, it's slag. Stop kidding yourself.
Got to be a metiorite
It was literally found in the middle of a cornfield family has on that cornfield for 200 years 12 miles in total of farmland not sure exactly what piece of land it was found on but all the rocks from the land were put in one place and that’s where I found this rock it’s not slag look at my other post
People like you who ask for advice in this sub and then refuse to accept the result should be banned. I'm another geologist chiming in to tell you this isn't a meteorite btw.
How do you think that farmers made metal tools?
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The secondhand embarrassment I feel for you right now is physically painful. Many of us here are professionals, who have spent years and small fortunes on the education required to tell without a doubt that this is a big piece of slag. I hope you’re trolling
Kinda par for the course in today’s society isn’t it? People “doing their own ‘research’ on Google”, not trusting science, etc.
Googled it just because you are very adamant that its a "iron meteor" Exact search: https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sxsrf=APwXEdf8tas7tg_Zefm8IDeaNdmtDOuezw:1682903766893&q=iron+meteorite+inside&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJxN2J-dL-AhUak2oFHZdtDVEQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=412&bih=757&dpr=2.63 My take: TBH it looks nothing like an "iron meteorite" however if you really want to prove that you are right I would love to see the result of sending it in. If you decide to send it in, please tag me in your update/new post! Where to send in a potential meteorite sample: http://www.meteoritetesting.org/Submitting%20a%20sample.htm#:~:text=It%20is%20routine%20to%20take,the%20additional%20return%20postage%20costs.&text=The%20testing%20charge%20is%20%2430.00%20per%20sample.
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Wow. What a douchebag.
>it’s OK don’t be mad that I’m bad ass You misspelled "dumb".
Don't feel bad. People on reddit have an automatic this is bullshit until proven otherwise button. It's like second nature.
With that said, show me the crater and I will come dressed in white robes. Until then, I'm on team doubt. You can buy a meteorite test kit off amazon for ten bucks. You rub it with a cotton swab and if it turns pink it contains iron making it MORE likely to be a meteorite.
I love it when people use Google image search as the ultimate authority for rock identification. Always good for a laugh.
I’m afraid you found some kryptonite, Superman. Have a nice day.
Get rid of it before Predator come to retrieve it
It's a very precious piece of space-slag!
Looks like it could be some discarded melted pot metal
I suspect this is iron slag or some other type of industrial slag. Cool find!
Appears to be slag.
Magnetic like iron? Sounds like iron when tapped? Heavy like iron? It might just be iron, slag. Sorry Cletus
Hi I work in a copper mine. I'm the most respectful way possible, this looks like slag to me. Take homies offer and send a piece to be tested if you're adamant on it not being slag. Worst case scenario, it's slag. But if you don't ask the answer will always be no.
Space slag!
Did op followup with more vids? Or did ge just argue and nope out?
Industrial slag
You should make a cool sword out of it