Why this rock
is probably not a meteorite:
Whoa!. The finder sent the photo at the top. He found the stone in
the Atacama
Desert of Chile. It looks
just like a weathered meteorite ought to look: reddish fusion
crust (with some edges chipped off), rounded shape, and regmaglypts.
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What is it?
It's a meteorites, a small (44-gram) ordinary chondrite. The finder
sent the stone to us, and I sawed it in two (middle photo). On the
sawn
face (bottom photo)
there
are abundant iron-nickel metal grains and chondrules visible.
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