Search of meteorites became very popular as a type of earnings now. And it is not accidental as in the market of trade in various space objects including quite big changes occurred meteorites. Very essential sums for a small splinter if only it really there was a meteorite are ready to offer a huge number of collectors. On the planet Earth falls every day a huge number of these heavenly gifts, but because very few people know how to define a meteorite, they remain unnoticed. Therefore it is necessary to know how this object and what its differences from a usual stone looks.
Instruction
1. The meteorite usually has the unusual form, some parties can be melted strongly off as it flies by through atmosphere layers.
2. Meteorites which fell quite recently possess a film which envelops itself all surface of a find. Usually it blackis on color, gray-brown is more rare. If the film already came under influence of time, there was an oxidation, then coloring will become reddish – brown, that is the color reminding rust.
3. Best of all the film is visible on a meteorite break if you will be lucky, and it has small cracks, then it is possible to see gloss of metal which is a part of a meteorite.
4. If to touch a meteorite, then it is possible to feel that all ledges are maleficiated.
5. If you move off in searches of meteorites, have at yourself a compass. It will help you to define this space obekt. Bring to it a compass if the arrow deviates in any of the directions, so before you, really, meteoric substance. This way will not work in the area where there are deposits of magnetic ores.
6. There is one type of meteorites which are not magnetic, these are meteorites chondrites. They can be determined by appearance, they represent a small piece of coal on which small brown impregnations are located in a large number.
7. It should be noted what usually meteorites which very long lay in the earth, to define to the ordinary person very difficult, this hard task which gives in only to experts in the business.
8. After you find a meteorite, record the place, date, depth at which it lay type of the soil and other important indicators. Try to make the schematic map of the place where the find was found.
9. If a meteorite very fragile as it was long subject to influence of natural factors, photograph it under different foreshortenings, make the small description of an object and address experts.