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Nice to have access to such high-end equipment and an operator who knows how to use it.

Thanks for the followup.  It's easy sometimes to fail to do that when the hope for a goodie turns into the realization of a less-than-valuable piece (and admittedly I've been guilty of that resulting silent treatment myself).

Meteorite identification is not for armchair quarterbacks, that's for sure.

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On 4/26/2022 at 10:51 PM, Againstmywill said:

One of my finds with my new Deus II this weekend while detecting at a local baseball field was what I thought a chunk of iron. Upon looking at it tonight, I was expecting it to be highly magnetic; it was not. A strong magnet will attract to it, but it struggles to stick to it. I hit it a couple times with a hammer to see if I could break off any crud from the outside. A chunk came off, and it exposed a bright, metallic looking substrate. It is very heavy for its size. I tried scratching the metallic area, thinking it may be lead, but it would not scratch with an aluminum chain link fencing piece. Any help would be appreciated as to whether this could really be a meteorite. If I need to cut it to find out, help with what direction to cut would also be super!  

Update--I used a file on it, and it barely took anything off. The metal is very hard.

Update 4-28-22--The close-up pics were taken using a USB microscope.

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I think you have some type of animal remains.

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