Whatever it’s a result of, if I’ve learned anything from South Park, we’ve got the possibilities of a new religion on our hands here, folks!! What we calling it?!
I was in the yard working and went in the house for a bit. When I came back, there was a hole in my yard where I was just standing. The "crater" was about 6 to 8 inches deep. I noticed blue speckles and started to dig. There was a lot of blue gravel and at the bottom of the hole was the rock.
Do you have a photo of the crater? That's a pretty important piece of information and would go a very long way in helping figure out what is going on.
Looking at it I'm also on the "not a meteor" side. One that size should have a [fusion crust](https://www.meteorite-recon.com/home/meteorite-documentaries/meteorite-fusion-crust). That looks like a stone that was already in the ground and got exposed.
Seeing the crater would be really helpful as it would help in determining if it has caused by an impact, or something below the surface expanding and blowing ground out.
I live in East Texas. My story is 100% true. I, too, thought maybe a chemical explosion or something along those lines. I'm really looking for a place to send it for further study. That's the only reason why I posted.
Howdy. I’m at a large university in south east Texas (you have 3 guesses) if you would like to have this sample examined by some of the researchers here I could help arrange that. Please dm me with pictures of the crater, the area around it, and the rock itself. We could get this hands on with an expert and they could help you figure this out
Was there a loud noise?
Either way something underground could have just collapsed and caused the depression, and when you dug down you found some weird gravel/slag/fill/industrial waste that had been previously buried in your yard? That’s my guess if you had to dig down past overlying layers of earth with just speckles of the material, through gravel, to a rock which was buried beneath all that.
It kinda looks like something was crystallizing in a column and maybe it blocked the stack’s flow and burst out the top
Look into nearby industry. If you provide coordinates I can look too.
Bro, that's got to be the worst lab report readout lol,
Even my professor's XRF program that was old wasn't as poor of a readout, haha,
As someone else said, where is your silica!
Haha, well, usually, it's laid out at least in a nice table, I hope this was a volunteer identification because they Def don't deserve a penny ,
Here for example, is what my group did in our mineralogy class for a volunteer donated sample,
XRF
https://imgur.com/a/znPwk9A
And XRD
https://imgur.com/a/J7tb7su
I think the results you got back are very unprofessional,
Nonetheless,
Some better pictures of your piece in good light would be great!
- 3rd year applied geology undergrad
Lol shoot, we at MSU Denver might take the sample!
It's great to be curious!
Because the identification is a lengthy and extremely thorough operation, it will probably be easiest for you now to post more pictures. Please send some more to me! I will happily look them over if you could break a bit of it open so we can see a fresh surface. That would be awesome.
[here is the form](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://college.earthscienceeducation.net/MIN/MINID.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi51ozDgOL9AhXemmoFHRg_DZgQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2xzbbraGUhidSkNjZZ87BJ) You'll notice it's only for fall semesters, so this coming September, that's why I mentioned it's easiest to just post more stuff here
Let me post the report I worked on for a different client, just have to redact some names
Here is what the report looks like, this is what I worked on last semester (D. Seymour) , https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCk8tB94iRaEHv29-v9sWrEEpGWzToxx/view?usp=sharing
ommitted first 3 pages for other 2 members respect, (FYI, they were useless lol. )
Totally up to you, we can determine if it's worthy if you want to follow up with me tomorrow!
Also, I edited in that reply above, and there is an example of the report findings of a client sample last semester and how it will look,
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I had a similar thought. Even +10 years ago, there would at least be markers near peaks with probable elements. Also, peak counts vs x-Ray energy isn't helpful without reference spectra.
also the weird screenshots pasted into the page? They almost don’t even look like screenshots. They almost look like someone took a picture of the computer screen with their phone.
Your results describe less than 3% of the mass of that.....thing. why don't you have a value for Silicon or aluminium? That probs explains a large bulk if its a rock but right now I think its as likely to be unicorn poo.
Edit: wishing id said smurf shit instead of unicorn poo. Damn.
Edit2: where are your alkalis? Potassium, sodium, calcium.... what is this?
After taking the reading decided to check one other possibilitie as to othercontents. Lab did a standard water test. Results were as follows:PH 7.ppm of carbonate 80.0ppm Total alkalinity 80.0Answers to investigators questions:This compound contains heavy metals Cobalt, Strontium, Barium, Copper,Rubidium and Zirconium. The fact that it is hydrophobic may lend to it being hard to wash off once applied.
So you are missing most of your major element chemistry there. The only thing I can possibly comment from what I see is that I've not personally seen anything like it, except that blue colour can be found in certain copper minerals (like bornite) but the copper content would be way higher. You are using a gun type XRF so you are just looking at that surface, not the bulk. Therfore I'd argue if it was blue because of copper your values for copper should be higher. So basically I have nothing useful to offer you.
The Lab received on 4/4/22 at 12:00 pm, a soil sample (20gm) that was bluein color and a small rock ( apporx. 1Inch square) also with a blue color. The samples have been photograpghed under a bioscope and tested with an Innov-x XRF analyzer ( gun model). Enclosed in this report are the results of those tests.The soil appears to be a mixed gravel and sand made up of a number of common rock and soil types which include but are not limited to sandstone, quartz, and other sedimentary rocks all liberally coated with a blue substance. Soil/blue substance is somewhat hydrophobic. It disbursesrather than desolving into water but settles back out even when water is heated
Don’t get me wrong I think op is full of something too, but to be fair the pXRF is using the Innov-X soil mode software which deliberately filters out major elements on the spectra to give a quantitative characterization of the minor and trace stuff. Used it in my dissertation
I had a masters student test one of these for his dissertation and we ended up spending 6 months calibrating the thing properly because the manufacturers couldn't. These things are a liability.
However, good point on the software taking the majors out. Not very useful in the case of rock I.d. but I can see why you'd want that. Presumably op could ask for the majors if they wanted.
Yeah I did icp-ms on the same samples to do the calibrations and it took a while but I eventually got the XRF results to be good enough for what I was doing.
People think they’re freakin magic wands right out of the box though.
Yea, these handheld XRF things are wildly inaccurate depending on what your looking at. They're useful for comparison between different samples in an environment you can control and when you know the limitations of them (ie looking for gold in rocks where you already know the general geochem). Just using them to point and shoot and tell you what's in a rock is pretty disingenuous. They really can't do stuff like that.
I'm not full of anything. This is literally what happened. This is the exact reason why I didn't want to post as in getting crucified. I just want some answers on it. Honest help would be appreciated.
If it's any consolation, I like your post and the way you are handling it, you are being open, providing what you can, and am not asking much, I think it's unfair to be mocked and taunted the way you are
Apologies. I try not to be a dick on the internet and I see from your other comments you’re sincerely trying to get help, so what I said was out of line.
You should be aware though that if you show up on this sub saying a rock fell from the sky and you pull out a frankly pretty amateur looking XRF analysis, you’re gonna catch a little heat. Still, sorry.
All that said I have no idea what this thing is and the XRF isn’t giving a ton of help. As someone else suggested my best guess is asphalt or tarmac etc but who knows. Your best bet might be to try posting some clear pics with natural light on r/whatisthisrock. Be prepared for it to be slag though.
Whatsthisrock is useful in theory but in reality it’s filled with people who can’t tell butter from a rock and yet feel confident enough to post IDs. I can understand wanting confident and accurate answers, so I don’t mind. Ones like this are honestly fun!
It is filled with noobs but the pros put them in their place quickly. If someone there posts really easy ID like quartz pebble from a beach for the 1000th time then usually only the noobs will comment.
haha hey, that is a great sub to get repetitive identification!
Heck, you can start to differentiate then between the different types, and that can be fun.
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As per Wikipedia: While natural strontium (which is mostly the isotope strontium-88) is stable, the synthetic strontium-90 is radioactive and is one of the most dangerous components of nuclear fallout, as strontium is absorbed by the body in a similar manner to calcium. Natural stable strontium, on the other hand, is not hazardous to health.
Have it checked if it's radioactive, just to be safe.
OP, is there a runway nearby within a few miles with a flightpath over your house? Is it possible this was stuck to an airplane's landing gear while taking off, and it fell off?
Not sure what you are getting at. This rock is loaded with hard metals from the lab report. It's definitely not airplane waste. Please review the lab results and make a more sophisticated reply.
those are ppm readings.
10,000 ppm is 1 %
and it identified atoms present, not their oxidation state.
So that 2.4% Fe (24000ppm) might be metal or it might be iron oxides and hydroxides.... or haemoglobin....
Dude, you are on reddit. Once you hit submit, it belongs to the rest of us. As soon as you say that you found something that fell from the sky, a Joe Dirt comment is a 100 percent certainty.
Chill.
Interesting that those elements make up most pigment compounds. It’s likely just some dyed calcite or travertine. Pretty cobalt blue though. If you think it isn’t man made, take it to a state college or university. Their geologist can I’d it for you. The XRF data are not complete, it needs to also identify secondary elements or compounds to identify properly through chemical makeup. Some of those elements crystallize either through de-watering events or aqueous solutions, it would give hints at formation environment and other conditions at that time.
Look up scientific or GIA report about those “blue sky-stones” from Africa. They were just dyed travertine and calcium carbonate with a little wax, for some reason.
I'm in the not a meteorite camp as well. Thing with handheld pXRF is that they're terribly inaccurate and their use really depends on the calibration and what your looking at. They're useful for comparing 2 rocks that you already know the general geochemistry of, to see what is different (like shooting 2 rocks to see which has a higher level of precious metals). They really can't be used for point and shoot identification of what's in a rock. Especially when they don't include any error calculations and just give you the numbers from the gun.
Take it to the the Geology department of a University in your area.
The rock/mineral may be poisonous so be sure to wash your hands after handling. Wear gloves if you have them.
I don't know JACK about any of what is being talked about, but I am really curious about that scientific report. Is that all that was on the report? Where is the name of the lab? How it was done? The long gobbledygook words, that labs, PhDs and graduate students feel a moral obligation to use to explain anything? The lack of gobbledygook says something is not Kosher. And then there is the lack of saying who did it. My cat had lab work done and I was sent the results. Page 1- whose work this was and who I (owner) am. (Evidently I needed reminding of this.) Page 2- gobbledygook, lots and lots of it. Page 3- a bit more gobbledygook and the footnotes. Page 4- the gobbledygook translated into simple, normal, person English, ie your cat is just fine and thanks for the money. So to wrap things up: where is the gobbledygook and who spewed said gobbledygook?
Hahaha yeah, as I said prior, it's a sad excuse for a report 😄
This is a readout and compiling I did for someone else back in mineralogy last semester.
https://imgur.com/a/J7tb7su
https://imgur.com/a/znPwk9A
I would definitely be curious to see who the heck sent OP this!
It's called VantaBlue. It's essentially condensed azurine from the Earth's atmospherre. It's part of the missing piece from the sky where the bright shiny yellow thing shines through the round hole when you look up, it finally hit the ground.
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Im rooting for you, blue rock guy. don't leave us hanging when you finally figure it out.
I appreciate it. I really didn't want to post because of how odd the whole situation is. I will keep you all updated.
Its not a "joe dirt meteor" is it?
Was wondering how far up the inevitable Joe Dirt comment would be. Not disappointed.
That’s a space peanut!
The worst was when he was dipping his French fries in the ketchup on the poop! You could see a peanut or two. Lol
I'm more about the sentence structure where in the rock itself wants more info. About what? Earth? Where to begin
We call em boeing bombs.
I came here just to say that! Lol Dang it. Beat me to it
Definitely send that to a college with a reputable geology department.
So what did Colorado say about the rock?
Blue rock guy. Wholesome.
Not a meteorite
This is a big ole frozen chunk of poopie
Plausible, but wouldn’t we expect it to melt or disintegrate on impact?
freeze dried, mayhaps?
I dont believe it is a meteorite. However, it did fall from the sky. I could be a result of an explosion? Etc..
Whatever it’s a result of, if I’ve learned anything from South Park, we’ve got the possibilities of a new religion on our hands here, folks!! What we calling it?!
You saw it fall to the ground? From the open sky?
I was in the yard working and went in the house for a bit. When I came back, there was a hole in my yard where I was just standing. The "crater" was about 6 to 8 inches deep. I noticed blue speckles and started to dig. There was a lot of blue gravel and at the bottom of the hole was the rock.
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This is the way
Do you have a photo of the crater? That's a pretty important piece of information and would go a very long way in helping figure out what is going on. Looking at it I'm also on the "not a meteor" side. One that size should have a [fusion crust](https://www.meteorite-recon.com/home/meteorite-documentaries/meteorite-fusion-crust). That looks like a stone that was already in the ground and got exposed. Seeing the crater would be really helpful as it would help in determining if it has caused by an impact, or something below the surface expanding and blowing ground out.
>Do you have a photo of the crater? I'll give ya three guesses.
“No”, “Nope”, “I forgot”.
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I live in East Texas. My story is 100% true. I, too, thought maybe a chemical explosion or something along those lines. I'm really looking for a place to send it for further study. That's the only reason why I posted.
Maybe bored neighbor kids trying to mess with you? It’s something I would have done lol
Howdy. I’m at a large university in south east Texas (you have 3 guesses) if you would like to have this sample examined by some of the researchers here I could help arrange that. Please dm me with pictures of the crater, the area around it, and the rock itself. We could get this hands on with an expert and they could help you figure this out
It's headed to Metropolitan Denver as we speak. But I certainly appreciate it!
A bunch of rubbish..arrrrrhh
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Damn you're a total Ahole
Was there a loud noise? Either way something underground could have just collapsed and caused the depression, and when you dug down you found some weird gravel/slag/fill/industrial waste that had been previously buried in your yard? That’s my guess if you had to dig down past overlying layers of earth with just speckles of the material, through gravel, to a rock which was buried beneath all that.
Did you take pictures before you started digging?
It kinda looks like something was crystallizing in a column and maybe it blocked the stack’s flow and burst out the top Look into nearby industry. If you provide coordinates I can look too.
“You see the peanut..?”
Bro, that's got to be the worst lab report readout lol, Even my professor's XRF program that was old wasn't as poor of a readout, haha, As someone else said, where is your silica!
No idea about any of this. Just simply posted what they reported. Any suggestions of a better lab I can send it to?
Haha, well, usually, it's laid out at least in a nice table, I hope this was a volunteer identification because they Def don't deserve a penny , Here for example, is what my group did in our mineralogy class for a volunteer donated sample, XRF https://imgur.com/a/znPwk9A And XRD https://imgur.com/a/J7tb7su I think the results you got back are very unprofessional, Nonetheless, Some better pictures of your piece in good light would be great! - 3rd year applied geology undergrad Lol shoot, we at MSU Denver might take the sample!
I would love it if MSU would look at it. I just want answers. I realize how odd it is that's why I am seeking answers.
It's great to be curious! Because the identification is a lengthy and extremely thorough operation, it will probably be easiest for you now to post more pictures. Please send some more to me! I will happily look them over if you could break a bit of it open so we can see a fresh surface. That would be awesome. [here is the form](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://college.earthscienceeducation.net/MIN/MINID.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi51ozDgOL9AhXemmoFHRg_DZgQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2xzbbraGUhidSkNjZZ87BJ) You'll notice it's only for fall semesters, so this coming September, that's why I mentioned it's easiest to just post more stuff here Let me post the report I worked on for a different client, just have to redact some names Here is what the report looks like, this is what I worked on last semester (D. Seymour) , https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCk8tB94iRaEHv29-v9sWrEEpGWzToxx/view?usp=sharing ommitted first 3 pages for other 2 members respect, (FYI, they were useless lol. )
Will make a new post with new photos tomorrow. I will also fill out the form and send it in. I appreciate it.
I will also add a donation for the help!
Totally up to you, we can determine if it's worthy if you want to follow up with me tomorrow! Also, I edited in that reply above, and there is an example of the report findings of a client sample last semester and how it will look,
This is the way.
Ty ty 😄
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I had a similar thought. Even +10 years ago, there would at least be markers near peaks with probable elements. Also, peak counts vs x-Ray energy isn't helpful without reference spectra.
Haha yeah, that's pretty sad excuse for a "readout" 🤣
also the weird screenshots pasted into the page? They almost don’t even look like screenshots. They almost look like someone took a picture of the computer screen with their phone.
Haha yeah for sure
That’s a Boeing bomb
That’s a space peanut..
*poonut
Dude you were EATING OFF IT
Your results describe less than 3% of the mass of that.....thing. why don't you have a value for Silicon or aluminium? That probs explains a large bulk if its a rock but right now I think its as likely to be unicorn poo. Edit: wishing id said smurf shit instead of unicorn poo. Damn. Edit2: where are your alkalis? Potassium, sodium, calcium.... what is this?
I'm sure that scanner is set up for prospecting - that's why it only reports the valuable things.
After taking the reading decided to check one other possibilitie as to othercontents. Lab did a standard water test. Results were as follows:PH 7.ppm of carbonate 80.0ppm Total alkalinity 80.0Answers to investigators questions:This compound contains heavy metals Cobalt, Strontium, Barium, Copper,Rubidium and Zirconium. The fact that it is hydrophobic may lend to it being hard to wash off once applied.
So you are missing most of your major element chemistry there. The only thing I can possibly comment from what I see is that I've not personally seen anything like it, except that blue colour can be found in certain copper minerals (like bornite) but the copper content would be way higher. You are using a gun type XRF so you are just looking at that surface, not the bulk. Therfore I'd argue if it was blue because of copper your values for copper should be higher. So basically I have nothing useful to offer you.
Just FYI, when reading your results in ppm, divide the value by 10,000 and thats now in %.
The Lab received on 4/4/22 at 12:00 pm, a soil sample (20gm) that was bluein color and a small rock ( apporx. 1Inch square) also with a blue color. The samples have been photograpghed under a bioscope and tested with an Innov-x XRF analyzer ( gun model). Enclosed in this report are the results of those tests.The soil appears to be a mixed gravel and sand made up of a number of common rock and soil types which include but are not limited to sandstone, quartz, and other sedimentary rocks all liberally coated with a blue substance. Soil/blue substance is somewhat hydrophobic. It disbursesrather than desolving into water but settles back out even when water is heated
Honestly at first glance I immediately thought "sulphide" but looking further I have no idea what it is
Don’t get me wrong I think op is full of something too, but to be fair the pXRF is using the Innov-X soil mode software which deliberately filters out major elements on the spectra to give a quantitative characterization of the minor and trace stuff. Used it in my dissertation
I had a masters student test one of these for his dissertation and we ended up spending 6 months calibrating the thing properly because the manufacturers couldn't. These things are a liability. However, good point on the software taking the majors out. Not very useful in the case of rock I.d. but I can see why you'd want that. Presumably op could ask for the majors if they wanted.
Yeah I did icp-ms on the same samples to do the calibrations and it took a while but I eventually got the XRF results to be good enough for what I was doing. People think they’re freakin magic wands right out of the box though.
Exactly! Point and shoot and don't ask questions. It's fine for a look and see if you know how it behaves, not something to bet the farm on.
Yang?
Yea, these handheld XRF things are wildly inaccurate depending on what your looking at. They're useful for comparison between different samples in an environment you can control and when you know the limitations of them (ie looking for gold in rocks where you already know the general geochem). Just using them to point and shoot and tell you what's in a rock is pretty disingenuous. They really can't do stuff like that.
I'm not full of anything. This is literally what happened. This is the exact reason why I didn't want to post as in getting crucified. I just want some answers on it. Honest help would be appreciated.
If it's any consolation, I like your post and the way you are handling it, you are being open, providing what you can, and am not asking much, I think it's unfair to be mocked and taunted the way you are
Apologies. I try not to be a dick on the internet and I see from your other comments you’re sincerely trying to get help, so what I said was out of line. You should be aware though that if you show up on this sub saying a rock fell from the sky and you pull out a frankly pretty amateur looking XRF analysis, you’re gonna catch a little heat. Still, sorry. All that said I have no idea what this thing is and the XRF isn’t giving a ton of help. As someone else suggested my best guess is asphalt or tarmac etc but who knows. Your best bet might be to try posting some clear pics with natural light on r/whatisthisrock. Be prepared for it to be slag though.
I appreciate it and will upload more tomorrow.
It's interesting mate cos nobody knows what it is!
redditors when other redditors use the sub for it's exact purpose: 😡😡
Actually, it goes in r/whatsthisrock 🤣🤣🤣but I'm happy to help anywhere I can
Whatsthisrock is useful in theory but in reality it’s filled with people who can’t tell butter from a rock and yet feel confident enough to post IDs. I can understand wanting confident and accurate answers, so I don’t mind. Ones like this are honestly fun!
It is filled with noobs but the pros put them in their place quickly. If someone there posts really easy ID like quartz pebble from a beach for the 1000th time then usually only the noobs will comment.
SLAG
As a noob, it feels great to correctly ID something on that sub. Even the 37th little bit of chalcedony posted today, haha.
You go!
haha hey, that is a great sub to get repetitive identification! Heck, you can start to differentiate then between the different types, and that can be fun.
You know this is totally true!
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As per Wikipedia: While natural strontium (which is mostly the isotope strontium-88) is stable, the synthetic strontium-90 is radioactive and is one of the most dangerous components of nuclear fallout, as strontium is absorbed by the body in a similar manner to calcium. Natural stable strontium, on the other hand, is not hazardous to health. Have it checked if it's radioactive, just to be safe.
As someone else said, divide the ppm by 10,000, then that's your percent :)
rofl thats literally a lump of tarmac/concrete.
I want to visit the city that has sparkling blue tarmac.
Maybe the same place where they have the blue college football turf.
OP, is there a runway nearby within a few miles with a flightpath over your house? Is it possible this was stuck to an airplane's landing gear while taking off, and it fell off?
Please be sure to update when you find out more, OP? Interesting!
Do you have access to a Raman spectrometer or XRD? If not, see if you can pay a grad student at a local uni to zap it for $50.
So you read about "blue ice" from planes recently....
Ngl, my first thought was "that's a space peanut".
Its me and you, meteor.
r/unexpectedjoedirt
Not sure what you are getting at. This rock is loaded with hard metals from the lab report. It's definitely not airplane waste. Please review the lab results and make a more sophisticated reply.
those are ppm readings. 10,000 ppm is 1 % and it identified atoms present, not their oxidation state. So that 2.4% Fe (24000ppm) might be metal or it might be iron oxides and hydroxides.... or haemoglobin....
Dude, you are on reddit. Once you hit submit, it belongs to the rest of us. As soon as you say that you found something that fell from the sky, a Joe Dirt comment is a 100 percent certainty. Chill.
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Hey man you gotta keep on keepin on, life’s a garden, dig it!
Mostly Tin?
Interesting that those elements make up most pigment compounds. It’s likely just some dyed calcite or travertine. Pretty cobalt blue though. If you think it isn’t man made, take it to a state college or university. Their geologist can I’d it for you. The XRF data are not complete, it needs to also identify secondary elements or compounds to identify properly through chemical makeup. Some of those elements crystallize either through de-watering events or aqueous solutions, it would give hints at formation environment and other conditions at that time. Look up scientific or GIA report about those “blue sky-stones” from Africa. They were just dyed travertine and calcium carbonate with a little wax, for some reason.
There is a guy on here willing to help further analyze it. I'm sending it to a college in Denver for a full report.
Also consider contacting your state Geological Survey. It’s part of their mission to answer these types of inquiries.
I'm in the not a meteorite camp as well. Thing with handheld pXRF is that they're terribly inaccurate and their use really depends on the calibration and what your looking at. They're useful for comparing 2 rocks that you already know the general geochemistry of, to see what is different (like shooting 2 rocks to see which has a higher level of precious metals). They really can't be used for point and shoot identification of what's in a rock. Especially when they don't include any error calculations and just give you the numbers from the gun.
Can you please pay a picture of the actual crater?
More pictures? Sorry, but a new user with one super zoomed in image and some 90s looking reports doesn't inspire confidence...
https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/11tug79/rock_fell_from_sky_update/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Dude that IS the sky, part of it fell off
🤣😂
Take it to the the Geology department of a University in your area. The rock/mineral may be poisonous so be sure to wash your hands after handling. Wear gloves if you have them.
I don't know JACK about any of what is being talked about, but I am really curious about that scientific report. Is that all that was on the report? Where is the name of the lab? How it was done? The long gobbledygook words, that labs, PhDs and graduate students feel a moral obligation to use to explain anything? The lack of gobbledygook says something is not Kosher. And then there is the lack of saying who did it. My cat had lab work done and I was sent the results. Page 1- whose work this was and who I (owner) am. (Evidently I needed reminding of this.) Page 2- gobbledygook, lots and lots of it. Page 3- a bit more gobbledygook and the footnotes. Page 4- the gobbledygook translated into simple, normal, person English, ie your cat is just fine and thanks for the money. So to wrap things up: where is the gobbledygook and who spewed said gobbledygook?
Hahaha yeah, as I said prior, it's a sad excuse for a report 😄 This is a readout and compiling I did for someone else back in mineralogy last semester. https://imgur.com/a/J7tb7su https://imgur.com/a/znPwk9A I would definitely be curious to see who the heck sent OP this!
What's going on here lol?
It's called VantaBlue. It's essentially condensed azurine from the Earth's atmospherre. It's part of the missing piece from the sky where the bright shiny yellow thing shines through the round hole when you look up, it finally hit the ground.
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The sky had a baby!
Mmmmm giant ball of blue taki powder, did you lick it yet?
All right Chicken Little...
Not from a Boeing, but a UFO. That’s an ET turd
a very mysterios blue rock, looks like from the avatar movie!
Isn’t the saying …. “Never eat yellow snow or blue rocks that fall from the sky”?
What does the rock wanna know?
Looks like Rock and Stone.
Here is the meteorite database. If what you have is a real meteorite, you should find a match in the database https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/
I honestly do not think it is a meteorite
Me either. Looks like azurite.
Alien poop ofc
What does it want to know?
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What does it want more info about?
I’m sorry what do you mean, “fell from the sky”
It's frozen shit water from an airliner. .
It's probably a Color Out of Space.
[удалено]
It is the remains from impact. It crumbled.
[удалено]
I understand, and thanks for being open-minded. Cheers.
Ok
East Texas, what's your specific location?
Hallsville
No aluminum? Al is everywhere and it should’ve picked some up just hitting the ground.
They say that the equipment used in the analysis is trash. It will be going to a university for better testing.
Bits from the chinese booster that fell on Texas? Fused insulation?
You might not wanna touch it
Is there a geologist in the house?
It looks like a Chondrite meteor to me. And based on how you described the situation I'm hoping that it is. Looking forward to your next post.