Smooth little black meteor or ?

Can anyone give me information about this rock or meteorite, it's magnetic .
Thank you

 

Hi @Billy Davis! Could you go back in to your post by hitting EDIT, then please click on the wording that says to "INSERT EVERY IMAGE AS FULL IMAGE" -the TOP IMAGE in the list that says what I've UNDERLINED !! That way, we're not clicking on little thumbnails, but get to see all of the images full sized when you post them!! Thanks!

 

Not a meteor. Maybe hematite or basalt.

 

Oh really? Thanks

 

Oh so it's hard to see my images

 

Billy..... ya silly goose .. , finding a meteorite ... is like finding a needle , in a metal haystack , in the forest on a deserted island...under water !!!!

& if it was a meteor......... it would likely be solid iron... & the size of a Dodge Ram !

but keep lookin Pal , .....

 

There's a handful of black rocks out there that are magnetic. Time to do some searching. (Not me)

 

I believe there are also many meteorites in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and neighbouring countries.

And take a truck, those things are usually heavy.

 

I note what look to be conchoidal fractures on several surfaces. Do those serve to narrow the ID?

 

OK thanks

 

A good piece of sliced iron meteorite looks like this.....

 

Dang, that's cool

 

I did not know basalt was magnetic. There’s a black basalt church at Lake Balaton in Hungary.

There is a “rockhounds” group on Reddit that may know as well.

Meteorite is very cool. Rolex makes its beautiful meteorite dials from the Gibeon meteorite.

 

I used the Rock Identifier app on two of the photos and they both came out as Pyrite.

 

Oh great, thank you. I will get that app also

 

There is nothing in your photos that remotely resemble pyrite.. https://www.google.com/search?clien...Hay5BkgQtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1188&bih=617&dpr=1.3

 

I know thanks for sharing

 

I said in another post that using the app on a picture on the computer is probably not going to be accurate. It's best to do it in person

 

Although the rock this post is about doesn't look like pyrite to me, I have found black pyrite. In one of the places I metal detect for gold in Nevada, there are small, black, pyrite cubes numerous enough that they're quite easy to find, and in places, they litter the ground. They really are much more black than gold/metallic colored. This is the only photo I've taken of one, but I've found better ones that are more perfect cubes. The rock identifying app may have picked up on the somewhat cubic shape of the poster's rock, and went off-track because of that.