we think we found a metoerite in our back yard how do we tell if it is real and if it is what do we do with it
2006-09-09 12:34:25 · 23 answers · asked by aimee R 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
darn illegal aliens throwing their things around
2006-09-09 14:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
~Finding out if it's real or not is quite simple. Bite it. If your teeth break, it is real. Or hit someone with it. If they take umbrage, it is real. If neither of the above effects occur, it is probably imaginary.
To determine if it is indeed a meteorite is another matter, but you didn't ask that.
Just a passing thought. If it is a meteorite and you have been handling it, hope and pray like hell that it is not contaminated by some exotic lethal alien microbe.
If it was mine, I wouldn't go within 100 yards of it without a haz-mat suit, and I'd think twice about that. My uncle Jeff saw one hit while camping up around Churchill Bay back in '63 and he retrieved it. He was dead two weeks later. The doctors still aren't sure what he had, but the caribou to this day don't go within a kilometer of the site where the thing hit.
2006-09-09 20:48:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A real meteorite would have fusion marks on it as it experienced intense heat on his way to the ground. If it does take it to the nearest University's astronomy department. Remember that it is worth at least $10 000.
2006-09-09 19:43:09 · answer #3 · answered by Joseph Binette 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sorry not to sound silly as I do not know much about meteorites but would you not have a large hole that it is sitting in with definite burn marks around it ?? lol or maybe I am just watching to much TV .Take a picture digital and I am sure their must be someone on the net ( qualified ) you can send it to to verify
2006-09-09 19:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Call the news.
2006-09-09 19:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by ISPEAKJIVE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Take it to the farm extension office they can tell you if it is.
Probably want to put it in a museum or something.
2006-09-09 19:40:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Take it to a local school\college or university, the clever people there will know for 100% sure :)
2006-09-09 19:36:00 · answer #7 · answered by nads 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A more puzzling question is: why did you post this on Social Sciences???
2006-09-09 19:40:53 · answer #8 · answered by davidangelrt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call the military or Nasa.
2006-09-09 19:35:44 · answer #9 · answered by Kitty? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
stop reading answers and call your local sheriff cuz if you dont know one when you see it , then i am sure you got a sheriff rather than a police dept
2006-09-09 19:42:15 · answer #10 · answered by kewl69charger 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋