[meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:16:31 -0800
Message-ID: <9CF55FF524FD4A9FB32A0B2B607C1019_at_bosoheadPC>

Ah! Dino eggs!!!
-Richard M


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dunklee" <steve.dunklee at yahoo.com>
To: <meteoritemike at gmail.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Larry
Atkins" <thetoprok at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite


> Take a look at this.
> http://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/07/dinosaur-eggs.html
> cheers
> Steve
>
> --- On Fri, 3/2/12, Larry Atkins <thetoprok at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Larry Atkins
>> <thetohttp://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/07/dinosaur-eggs.htmlprok at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
>> To: meteoritemike at gmail.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:08 PM
>> Hi Mike, List,
>>
>> I'd like to see inside but but I've not yet windowed it. I'm
>> in no
>> hurry to damage it, just in case it's special. I can say
>> that in hand
>> you can see there are small chondrule like features and
>> chunks of
>> darker rock. There are also some dark, metallic looking
>> things. The
>> pictures do it no justice. The thing that cast's doubt in my
>> mind is
>> the fact that there is no attraction whatsoever to the super
>> magnet.
>>
>> It's probably petrified fruit or a dino egg, or a
>> concretion, or any
>> one of the other things people have suggested. The odds of
>> it being a
>> rare meteorite are infinitely small, this I'm well aware
>> of.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Larry Atkins
>>
>> IMCA # 1941
>> Ebay alienrockfarm
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
>> To: Paul Gessler <cetuspa at shaw.ca>
>> Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 11:53 am
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fossilized Fruit or meteorite
>>
>>
>> Wow, Paul has a valid point. That is definitely not a
>> meteorite, but
>> it could be something very interesting nonetheless. :)
>>
>> Are you going to window it?
>>
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>> On 3/2/12, Paul Gessler <cetuspa at shaw.ca>
>> wrote:
>> > Larry:
>> >
>> > I don?t think that is a meteorite. But the ?flow?
>> lines looked
>> puzzling
>> > until I remembered my experience with finding
>> fossilized fruits
>> > on the Queen Charlotte Islands in BC. Canada
>> >
>> > I think it is a fossilized fruit of some sort.
>> >
>> > Spinifructus antiquus
>> >
>> > take a look here: sort of like a fig
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.plantworlds.com/images/800px-Spinifructus_antiquus_fruits_01[1].jpg
>> >
>> > Still a cool find.
>> >
>> > Paul Gessler
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Larry Atkins
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://s934.photobucket.com/albums/ad190/alienrockfarm/New%20Find%20March%201%202012/
>> >
>> > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4846 -
>> Release Date:
>> 03/02/12
>> >
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