Sunday, August 4, 2013

Some rocks...

I found this rock in the Eastern Sierras:
I was so certain this rock was a meteorite, a chondrite!  I thought I spotted chondrules with my magnifying glass. I researched on the internet and did the tests experts recommend before submitting a tiny piece to a meteorite specialist.  I was so 100% certain!  Only to be disappointed by the letter back saying it was probably a meta-volcanic rock.  Meta being that it had changed it's properties because of heat.  I still think it is a meteorite.  It looks so similar to the meteorites on display at Griffith Park Observatory and in this link: http://www.meteorite-pictures.org/Chondrite-Meteorite-Pictures/


Close up using the Zoomy showing sand size spheres all clustered together.  I found the rock among ryholite tuff.

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