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

This is one of the neatest meteorwrongs I've ever seen! It's shaped like a meteorite. It even has dimples that look like regmaglypts. It doesn't have a fusion crust, however.
  
What is it?

An agate.
     
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