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<p>[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 3786356, member: 99642"]Just looking at it, it seems to show signs of very high heat and even some melting perhaps. Is the entire thing that dark, almost black, all over?</p><p>I see little spots of reddish/rust color which may indicate iron.</p><p>There are some relatively smooth edges and some other very angular edges, which, why the differences on the same rock, I don't know the meaning of.</p><p>In the manner of a river pebble, the action of the water rolling the rock 'round and 'round will smooth and soften the sharp edges, perhaps as this rock entered and traversed our atmosphere, it too, was tumbled and smoothed and softened by the heat and the action of the atmosphere passing over it, while, at the same time, leaving angular and somewhat sharp looking areas untouched, as if protected from the same forces that heated, smoothed and softened.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't say for sure because I wasn't there, riding' it in ( ala Slim Pickens on the H bomb in the movie Dr. Strangelove)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y" rel="nofollow">watch</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 3786356, member: 99642"]Just looking at it, it seems to show signs of very high heat and even some melting perhaps. Is the entire thing that dark, almost black, all over? I see little spots of reddish/rust color which may indicate iron. There are some relatively smooth edges and some other very angular edges, which, why the differences on the same rock, I don't know the meaning of. In the manner of a river pebble, the action of the water rolling the rock 'round and 'round will smooth and soften the sharp edges, perhaps as this rock entered and traversed our atmosphere, it too, was tumbled and smoothed and softened by the heat and the action of the atmosphere passing over it, while, at the same time, leaving angular and somewhat sharp looking areas untouched, as if protected from the same forces that heated, smoothed and softened. I can't say for sure because I wasn't there, riding' it in ( ala Slim Pickens on the H bomb in the movie Dr. Strangelove) [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y']watch[/URL][/QUOTE]
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