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WaldOtter

Meteorite oracles can you help? A (presumably) meteorite crashed into our garden and smashed the concrete but doesn't look like anything in the identifying guides I've found.

Pretty much just what the title says. It narrowly missed my Dad's head as he was leaving for work. It's about an inch and a half long and made a hole that's about 7 inches. The concrete broke up in big scales about a half cm thick. Presumably it's a meteorite because it flew with so much force but I've been scouring the internet and can't find one like it. I've also read that meteorites are smooth because they don't have vesicles like terrestrial rocks but this isn't smooth. It is different shades of light and dark grey and quite gnarly with long crystals in it. I will take photos tomorrow in the daylight and add them if anyone's interested. Do any of you know if there's somewhere that I can email pics to that might be able to help? Some kind of body that would have the time to look at it? We'd really love to know where it came from.

Posted Aug 17, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

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