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A Photo Gallery of Meteorwrongs
Why this rock is probably not a meteorite:

There's no fusion crust, it's too spherical (like a stream pebble), and the depression is much too deep for a regmaglypt.
  
What is it?

The rock looks igneous. I don't know what made the depression.
  

See also: Some Meteorite Realities
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Prepared by:

Randy L. Korotev

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

Please don't contact me about the meteorite you think you’ve found until you read this and this.

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu