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Found this on my covered deck this morning. It's nonmagnetic and spherical. Looks like it has about a .06 thick crust that appears crystalline. Reddish color makes me think iron oxide but,again, it is not magnetic. It would be valuable if it is a meteorite so we can rule that out. My luck doesn't run that way. We have lots of geodes in the area but most that I have seen are hollow and much rougher texture on the outside. My house backs up to an abandoned limestone quarry.

There isn't a hole in the deck roof so it must have been dropped there by a critter? I haven't mowed in a couple weeks so I don't think it was tossed by the mower. I go out that door often, I doubt it has been laying there long. Any of you geology types know what I have?

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I was going to say it's a geode, but by definition a geode has a hollow cavity.  What you have there pardner is a nodule. Or that's what I would say if we had a bet.

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Ok, a professor at the local college tells me that I have a hematite nodule. Even though hematite contains iron oxide, it is not magnetic.

I am not going to glow.

Horn4life wins his choice from the bottom shelf.

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54 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So it's a nodule with both a penis and a vagina?

Transnodule.  Get it right. 

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I wouldn't have known nodule if I hadn't looked up geode.  Sort of interesting that the dog brought it up.  GeoDog...

might look pretty cool if it was polished

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To be honest, I don't really know how it ended up on the deck. We have coons that come up to eat catfood  and a rat terrier that spends the day outside so it could have been either, I suppose.

Or aliens.

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J: Hermaphrodite

B: Lady-man-ladies

J: Oh you sexy hermaphrodite lady-man-ladies

With your sexy lady bits

And your sexy man bits too

Even you must be in to you ooo ooo

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39 minutes ago, BBQ2Bayou said:

You found a rock in your backyard that you didn't know what it was, so you hopped down to the local college, grabbed a professor and had him take a looksie? 

He's an old man with time on his hands.  And things need knowin'!

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39 minutes ago, BBQ2Bayou said:

You found a rock in your backyard that you didn't know what it was, so you hopped down to the local college, grabbed a professor and had him take a looksie? 

Yes. Yes I did. You gotta love small town living.

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21 hours ago, horn4life said:

I wouldn't have known nodule if I hadn't looked up geode.  Sort of interesting that the dog brought it up.  GeoDog...

might look pretty cool if it was polished

You offering to polish his nodule?

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On October 29, 2019 at 7:01 PM, BBQ2Bayou said:

You found a rock in your backyard that you didn't know what it was, so you hopped down to the local college, grabbed a professor and had him take a looksie? 

Pretty cool that you can do that, isn't it?

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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Pretty cool that you can do that, isn't it?

I think so. Not something I would ever think about doing. I'd probably try to use google lens. That's kinda sad. 

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I play golf with half of the faculty and I'm related to the other half. It's not a big deal. We aren't talking about K-State or UT here. My Great Grandfather founded the school.

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I for one think it is pretty cool that you have a team of professors to consult but you felt it important to ask the Surly group first. Smart.

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Ask your team how hematite pisoliths are formed and if the  crystalline stuff is calcium carbonate. Then ask why there is so much of the stuff on Mars. JK, don't get your hopes up as the ones found by the rover appear to be smaller than half an inch. Maybe yours was formed by an undersea volcano as I can't figure out how the concentric banding would be formed if it came from a larger concretion that was rounded by weathering (like river rock). And no I'm not a geologist.

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41 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

I for one think it is pretty cool that you have a team of professors to consult but you felt it important to ask the Surly group first. Smart.

FIFY.

small school.

Small? That sounds like home schooling.

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Close. Maybe 500 students. With the religious leanings of the school, I was surprised that I wasn't told the rock was less than 4000 years old. The professor wasn't a geology prof. Chemistry with a geology background. I don't think they like to discuss with their students how rocks were most likely formed.

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Hematite helps to absorb negative energy and calms in times of stress or worry. Hematite is a very protective stone and is great to carry to help you stay grounded in many situations. Hematite is also good for working with the Root Chakra, helping to transform negative energies into a more positive vibration.

 

Gradulations!

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