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Meteorite Theory
Meteorite or impactite with Widmanstätten pattern. The striations also occur on shatter cones. The core has type 1 crossing grid bricking. Widmanstätten patterns, planar deformation features and impact bricking/geometrics are shock made imprints of the shock waves present at origin. Shock physics forms and fossils can be difficult to tell apart. 8 Nov. 2025.
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Granular particle grain constructions are called "Constellationing." 5P: Constellationing | mysite
In this meteorite you can see the granular particle construction in the core and in the ablative crust. That is because the core material is the source of the ablative crust retaining its original character. 8 Nov. 2025.
Azawad Meteorites
Here again you can see the granular grain construction. The broken section reveling the core shows it well. This was an impactite in space. The impact in space made "the common particle." Common particles vary in size based on distance sorting and the pulverization energy. 8 Nov. 2025.
SPECTACULAR ORIENTED STONE METEORITE, The Sahara Desert | Christie’s
Beyond the ablative crust you have cindering plasma cavitation. The physics of this earth entry were more intense than the ablative crust. Sometimes people find cinders on their roofs. 8 Nov. 2025.
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Simple entry orientation. 8 Nov. 2025.
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Another simple orientation but look how the plasma cavitation has reveled the granular particle construction i.e. Constellatioining. 8 Nov. 2025.
Meteorite Facts for Kids - Interesting Facts about Meteorites
The simple fundamentals is a meteorite is heated from the outside inwards from the friction of earth atmosphere entry and an impactite is hot all over or resonate cooked from the inside out like your microwave oven does. The specimen shown above an impactite was hot all over and shaped by the expelling velocity. Apparently it also had a spin. Impactite speeds are greater than the average meteorite. This is because they were larger objects perhaps not even slowed by earth entry because of size and the explosion launch when the hit earth can be twice the impact speed. A meteorite might be slowed to 200 mph when hitting earth but a large bolide/protoplanet could hit earth at up to 30 mile per second and expel impactites at 60 miles per second, galaxy speed. 8 Nov. 2025.
Matthew Slaughter
Found inside of a meteorite crater. The protrusion is threaded like a screw.
Tony Brook
I think the patination shows this was originally iron sulphide pyrite or Marcasite and it has chemically weathered to iron hydroxide, Geoethite.
Directional Cavitation/Cindering - You just don't see that much. Impact or Volcanic. Volcanic velocities up to 700 mph. No, that won't make a specimen like shown above. So that just leaves meteorite or impactite. A whole body clean burn cavitation favors impactite. Meteorites tend to show ablation. Impact has the advantage of blasting all the air away making possible a clean cavitation. April 22, 2024.
Charlean Andes
​Is this basalt ? Someone said that's what it was. Got it at an estate sale today.
Alas, here we have the same effect with ablation. 12 Nov. 2025.
KatieandJason Bliss
Just arrived!
"Heavily fluted" Unclassified Chondrite. Found Algeria, 2023. Pictures don't do this one justice. Our youngest likes to press her fingers in the fluted portions lol
Ex. M. Stream, Ex. S. Arnold
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