Creek - Don Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) Is these meteorite? Last night and this morning we had heavy rain here in the DFW area. After the rain I've noticed small pebble size rocks that came washed down from the roof. I've have never seen these rocks on the driveway before. It's about 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 inch in size. It does show some shiny mineral embedded on certain stones. I've tested magnetic test , but were not magentic. There shouldn't be any business these rocks be on the house roof unless came from the sky. Edited August 22, 2022 by Creek - Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creek - Don Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) One more picture. Each piece of these rocks contains shiny nickel flakes. Just doesn't show up on the camera though. Lots of silicate reflected surface does show up. Meteroite - YouTube Edited August 23, 2022 by Creek - Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorp Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Highly doubtful. 1. There is no fusion crust visible in the pictures, which there would be unless these had been up there for decades. 2. That many individual fragments would not land in such a localized area as a single roof. This would mean that, if these are extraterrestrial, they would have to be weathered fragments of a single stone, and a stone of this size would have produced a noticeable fireball in the sky and would have damaged your roof. 3. The rocks are all of similar size, suggesting gravel of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creek - Don Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, connorp said: Highly doubtful. 1. There is no fusion crust visible in the pictures, which there would be unless these had been up there for decades. 2. That many individual fragments would not land in such a localized area as a single roof. This would mean that, if these are extraterrestrial, they would have to be weathered fragments of a single stone, and a stone of this size would have produced a noticeable fireball in the sky and would have damaged your roof. 3. The rocks are all of similar size, suggesting gravel of some sort. Thanks! I'm still trying to figure out how these stones appeared after the rain though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Your "nickel" looks like mica to me at first glance. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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