[Rockhounds] meteorite expert

[Richard Hill]

Hi,

My wife is not handy right now, we're all getting ready for a big public 
Apollo 11 Celebration at Lunar & Planetary Lab tomorrow, so I'll pass on 
some online references that should get you going.

My wife's meteorite webpage is at:
http://alpo-astronomy.org/
Go to the Meteorite Section on the left hand sidebar. There is a PDF 
downloadable poster on identifying meteorites there.

Also, here are a couple of the better websites.
http://www.star-bits.com/ID.htm
http://www.aerolite.org/found-a-meteorite.htm
http://www.meteorites.com.au/found.html

The middle one is Geoffrey Notkin's website. He's one of the Meteorite 
Men on TV and an old friend.

Good luck,

-Rik



steve chisarick wrote:
> Hi this is one i just found with my metal det. 25 cent size it is attracted by a magnet
> i filed a corner and it is shiny can this be a meteorite i have a microscope what to look for?
> thanks 
> steve
>
> --- On Sat, 6/27/09, Richard Hill <rhill at lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Richard Hill <rhill at lpl.arizona.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] meteorite expert
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 10:42 PM
>
> My wife, a meteoriticist here at U/Az (I'm just an asteroid finder) says, "nope, not a meteorite". She's seen tens of thousands of them. Still, if you disagree, and some do, cut it in half nice and clean and put the cut sides on a flat bed scanner and do a scan at highest resolution and post that photo.
>
> -Rik
>
>