Bowtie1940
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I’ve always been fascinated by them since watching meteor showers with my Mom as a kid.
Iron ones are exceedingly rare.
I don’t live anywhere near these structures, but it seems out West where ther are Buttes and the like structures, where thousands of years their layers have eroded dropping debris at their bases.
It seems reasonable that it might be a good place to scan the bases for chunks of iron.
There’s an easy test to see if a chunk is a meteorite: Cut and polish a spot and etch it with acid. If it is one, a unique cross hatch pattern will emerge know as Widmanstaat(sp?) lines.
Google it.
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Iron ones are exceedingly rare.
I don’t live anywhere near these structures, but it seems out West where ther are Buttes and the like structures, where thousands of years their layers have eroded dropping debris at their bases.
It seems reasonable that it might be a good place to scan the bases for chunks of iron.
There’s an easy test to see if a chunk is a meteorite: Cut and polish a spot and etch it with acid. If it is one, a unique cross hatch pattern will emerge know as Widmanstaat(sp?) lines.
Google it.
Opinions??
To
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