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Anonymous writes:

An unclassified stone found in the U.S.A. in the last year.

The finder of this stone was new to meteorites when he made his discovery. In fact, this was his first "find" after he had been searching for only a few weeks. After a few more weeks of surfing the Internet comparing his find to images of similar-looking meteorites, he was convinced that he needed to contact some professionals at a university. But he quickly became discouraged after being told that his little stone probably wasn't worth the expense that it would cost him to get it classified, and that they were not interested anyway if it was an Ordinary Chondrite. The finder, who was a professional but in an unrelated field, was very discouraged to see how disinterested were his counter-parts in the meteoritic discipline with American meteorite finds.

By the time I was contacted by this finder, he had been told by several self-proclaimed "experts" that this specimen was not a meteorite. I explained to the finder that all these problems stem from the fact that there is no funding allocated for the recovery and classification of meteorite found here in the U.S.A. I told the finder that in order to disprove the skeptics and to entice the scientists, he would need to cut a type-specimen from his little stone, and ultimately, to make a thin-section.

The finder soon discovered that his little stone was very badly weathered, because it crumbled into three pieces while being cut. And the thin-section was cheaply made, so admittedly, it is not the best quality. But we feel that we now have enough evidence to dispel the "nay-sayers", and to make a case that this is not an Ordinary Chondrite.

Submitted for your pleasure and opinion. What do you think this "little stone" is?

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