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A photo gallery of meteorwrongs
Apr 26th, 2015 at 7:55pm
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Hi,

Ran across this site with interesting info on all these meteorwrongs

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/meteorwrongs.htm

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Re: A photo gallery of meteorwrongs
Reply #1 - Apr 27th, 2015 at 11:47am
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That's a great site.  Seeing what people commonly mistake for real meteorites is just as important for identifying them.  Even I was fooled into thinking a rock I found was a meteorite.  When I took it to a geologist at NC State, it turned out to be diabase.
  
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