meteor or Dino egg?

[lindsay00]

[Kohler Palaeontology]

Welcome from Australia !!

 

Where was it found, what country? (Specific location e.g., county or nearby town) not seeing any fossils so far...

 

As someone who has done research on meteorites before, I can be fairly certain that neither of these are meteorites, so they are "meteorwrongs".

 

Also, you put in the title "meteor", a meteor is the rock you see flying through the air, a meteorite is when the rock has landed on the ground and a meteoroid is a rock in space 3 meters or smaller, anything larger is an asteroid. Just so you know, as not many people I see do.

[Rockwood]

Sorry, dino egg is out too. These look like iron rich rocks to me.

[Fossildude19]

Sorry, no fossils or meteorites here.

[Advantage]

Ironstone rock only. 

[lindsay00]

6 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Sorry, dino egg is out too. These look like iron rich rocks to me.

 

[lindsay00]

Thank you! I know nothing about any of this! My boyfriend and I are timber cutters and we are always in the woods and we find some crazy neat things! The big one was just soooo heavy and odd! A magnet goes to it so we were like maybe?! lol thank you!

[Rockwood]

2 hours ago, lindsay00 said:

Thank you! I know nothing about any of this! My boyfriend and I are timber cutters and we are always in the woods and we find some crazy neat things! The big one was just soooo heavy and odd! A magnet goes to it so we were like maybe?! lol thank you!

If a magnet is attracted to it, it's not common ironstone.  Better wait for more information.  

More information about where it was found would be helpful. 

Edited September 24 by Rockwood

[Rockwood]

It might be taconite. I just read that it's 1/3 magnetite. 

[Kohler Palaeontology]

The inside is the same color as the outside and it doesn't appear have a fusion crust (the black layer on the outside of a meteorite caused by layers burning off as it enters the atmosphere). I have found many magnetic rocks with only one of them being a possible meteorite. Meteorites are very rare, especially at that size too. Micrometeorites or "space dust" is quite common, however.

Edited September 25 by Kohler Palaeontology