Meteorites

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Wow, I can sell rocks from my backyard on ebay too... You guys, its a scam, seriously

A lot of meteorites are from people's backyards or farmers fields. There is a science to determining their origin and they can be buried treasure worth up to $100,000 each.

i have one, wich ive properly named ernesto. i'd have alot more exept there to expencive. it seems space rocks are hot and everyone knows it,.

a couple of fun facts,

this is where mine is from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater





Next i'd like to get a pallesite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallasite

but i need better money control

Richard - Back around '01 or '02 here in town I with 4 friends and as we were driving out of the woods on Lake Mary Rd we saw I am assuming a meteor falling. It had like green flaming trails of light coming off it. It fell in the opposite direction. I told everyone about it and found like only one other person in town who saw it that night. It never made the newspaper. It was fairly big whatever it was course it may have burnt up by time it hit ground.

In Tenn I found a bunch of this weird cratery, molteny looking rocks, just a bunch of them scattered in the woods. I told a friend who always called herself a rock expert and she insisted it was some kind of sludge or something that got tossed off trains. Except there were no railroad tracks going through those woods, nor any prints to suggest there had ever been railroad tracks there. I've still got some of the rocks whatever they are. Hope its not radioactive.

yah. i found a rock out in the middle of the desert that had "thumbprints" all over it and such and was magnetic and was relitively heavy for his size compaired to other rocks and had a "burnt crust" on the outside and regular rock surface on the underside. when i moved to flag back in the late 90s i took it to the rock&gem show at little america and asked a professional to check it out,. he did but later dismissed it as slag. probably the same stuff your describing from the railroads but i found this guy way out in yuma county in the desert and there was no railroad tracks around for freaking miles. to make a long story short i got disapointed after hearing that and ditched the rock right on the grounds of little america, i went home a few day passed and i had second thoughts and went back and it was gone. im starting to think that chump professional rock guy picked it up and knew what it really was

thats basically when i got intrested in space rocks

Richard he may very well have lied to you hoping you would discard it. Then again maybe he just made up an answer cause he didn't know. My experience is rockhounds tend to never admit they don't know, but will instead make up something.

I found this weird rock then put it down and my friend came along and saw it and kept it. It looked like a fossil to me. She showed it to the owner of the Holbrook dinosaur museum who about messed his pants over it. He wouldn't tell us what it was at first, then mumbled something about a cobra charm?? then kept asking where we found it and wanted to buy it from her. I've often wondered what that thing really was.

intresting observation ticker. the best rockhound i knew was a guy named barry, he basically taught me a little about the game and we'd hunt for fireagates out there near blyth cali. man those were some good times!! i remember once my grandma took me out by dateland az and we found all these amethyst crystals just laying around and they were huge! then some guy came out of his trailor and was threatening us with a screwdriver saying we were tresspassing and sh-t. we just got out of there but that place was rock heaven, good stuff laying all over the place. its really sad people lie like that because they want what you find.

Some are stone, some iron, some both. It can be hard to tell.

Irons come smooth, black, or rust. stone has a wide range, most are moving fast, if they survive to the surface, they can have a burned crust, but many come in very slow, and are deep cold if found quickly. Every few years comes a story of one going through a roof, or car.

Some things that look like them are volcanic bombs, blown out of a volcano, some time in the last few billion years, hundreds of miles from the volcano. Volcanos erode quickly, so there may be no trace.

All along the Gulf Coast are bits of glass formed when the big one struck the Bay of Campeche 700 miles away.

Most vaporize in the air, or striking the ground. Normal cosmic speeds run 40,000 miles per second.

A big one reaches the surface about every 25,000 years, with the force of a hundred atomic bombs.

The crater in Arizona was formed 50,000 years ago, the next hit Mauritania, 25,000 years ago, and 4 out of five hit the ocean. Several cultures Sumarian, Mayan, said that a powerful god destroys the earth every 25,000 years. Sumarians called it Marduk, the Mayans Quetsacotal, the flaming feathered serpent in the sky.

In our words, they spoke of a monster of a long period comet, which is due, The Mayan long count ends in 2013, end of the Fifth Age. Two known smaller comets left the Leonid, and Persid metor showers, left so much debris that thousands per hour streak in the sky when the earth goes through their path to the sun.

Craters survive in deserts, but there were likely many more, something like the Earth in Cowboy Bebop.

a minor correction inventor the mayan calander runs out december 21st 2012 not the year after