Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on November 23, 2025, 4:35 pm
A friend found a rock while hunting, last week. Described it and sent me a photo. Wanted to know if it might be a meteorite. Said a magnet sticks to it.
I saw it today. It's a little more than half the size of a bowling ball and weighs prolly thirty to forty pounds!
I did a little Moh's test and examination of what looked like peridot crystals in a hole. It was a mineral, but not from the meteorite. From what may have encased it, meaning at some time it was on the earth surface, then buried deep down, and resurfaced due to orogeny.
The MAGA man sitting across the table from me piped up, that I was damaging that rock, which was worth a lot of money. I explained what I was doing. I minored in geology, almost with enough hours to be a major. But that doesn't matter because this was no terrestrial rock.
I examined an olivine print on the rock, and determined that most likely came from precambrian gneiss that encased this meteorite a long time ago. Like at least 1.5 billion years, when the gneiss formed. The meteorite is clearly much older. It is most likely NOT a recent fall. It was found on the Evans batholith uplift at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, and is clearly an outlier that would NEVER form under the metamorphic conditions that formed the Evans uplift.
I suggested he take it to the DMNS for an evaluation. The MAGA man, assuming I was both damaging the valuable specimen and bullshitting, said they don't know. Take it to the local Numismatic Museum where it could be evaluated for its worth by experts.
A coin museum to determine value of a meteorite?
First, it has to be determined to be a meteorite. To me it is clearly an iron nickel meteorite. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who has a large meteorite collection, can verify it. In the lab, the museum can determine what content is iron, which nickel, and they may want to document it for their archives. Nobody else has that kind of expertise, or a lab facility to do it.
They will not "steal" it. Steal it and sell it for a lot of money. That was MAGAman's fear.
The MAGA man said not to leave it, or take his eye off it because you can't trust major museum personnel. Full of crooks, you know. The Numismatic Museum is absolutely trustworthy. After all, it's private, and a bunch of coin collectors. Everybody knows coin collectors are absolute authority experts on meteorites.
This is a little glimpse into what kind of people voted for the felon, and what kind still support the felon.
You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Was the friend who found the rock the MAGA man?
Posted by Sia on November 23, 2025, 8:58 pm, in reply to "A stupid MAGA story" ADMIN
Another church member did. MAGA man made his remarks as I was examining it.
Imagine the stupidity of taking a rock to a coin museum for evaluation. Imagine recommending that!Maybe he should recommend a taxidermy?
All MAGAman could see was thr rock was worth money. Perhaps a lot of money. They believe felon is smart because he has a lot of money. If we had a dime every time that idea was raised, we'd be rich.
MAGAman's car is plastered with felon propaganda. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
This is the guy who fired bullets into his back neighbors shed when he heard noises coming from it. His neighbor's son was in the shed. A clear case for why some people should not own a gun. He collects them and has many.
You can't joke or kid with this man at all. He was a career military man who didn't rise very far. He is trained in martial arts... and came to bowling a few times. Good shots are given high fives. Errant shots get fist bumps. His fist bumps with me were bony, hard, and they hurt. I don't think he was trying to hurt me. He is so friggin stupid, he can't seem to coptrol his gross motor movements. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
The common clay of the American West
Posted by greenman on November 23, 2025, 5:25 pm, in reply to "A stupid MAGA story" Valued Poster
I would guess it is at least 4.5 billion years old. That is actually average for meteorites. Because of the metamorphic rock batholith where it was found, it may have landed on earth before there was terrestrial life. The peridot crystals prove it was at one time, deep in the earth's crust, and was brought up by the orogeny that formed the Rocky Mountains, aboud 65 million years ago. MAGAman just stared at me, and his face said "this is all bullsh!t."
This is the same man who shot bullets into his back neighbor's shed when he heard some activity there one night. It was the neighbor's son retrieving something from the shed. Remember when I shared that story?
Any gun in the hands of somebody that stupid is dangerous, and he brings it to church. He hides it better now. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
I remember that story you told because it reminded me of a local dude who shot the burglar
on November 23, 2025, 4:35 pm
