What did my dog drag up?

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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?

[UTPhil2006 3828]

[Kennythetiger 9497]

It's a petrified black walnut.  They're as rare as apologies from your head football coach.  I'd keep it if I were you. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

Here's a better view. It seems to be heavy for it's size.

Edited October 29, 2019 by Shoxthemonkey

[Sbbruin 21912]

It's uranium 235.  R.I.P.

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

Cool. I'm old anyway. Not @Armybrat old, but close.

Edited October 29, 2019 by Shoxthemonkey

[deadshank 24653]

Touch it, I dare you  

[TwiceHorn 31685]

It's a 

e-Bhxeg-Ms-Pf-Rs-I8-Mb9pqdww-Xj-Ho-GO6-GR2p-FVj-YOqlo7-V1-Lo-TAw-PFlf-JIi5-CLCbe31-Tjq-Fja-PEm-Ps-Gt

Says so right on the damn pitcher.  Don't you know nothin?

[horn4life 3818]

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.

[Telegraph_it 3371]

Coprolite. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22030]

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

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

Best of both worlds

[Js1 85754]

54 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

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

Transnodule.  Get it right. 

[Jerry Callo 8830]

I'm going with a rock.

[horn4life 3818]

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

Edited October 29, 2019 by horn4life

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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.

[Reagan1k 3026]

All my dog drags up are dead mullet. 

Kudos to your mutt.

[blacklab 11994]

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

[InkaUtexas 26356]

3 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

I'm going with a rock.

[Jkwellborn 6877]

Your wife’s iud.

[RPM 26429]

Does it taste salty or savory?

[BBQ2Bayou 807]

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? 

[RDCanecutter 26552]

Is it harder than glass? Throw it at a neighbor's window and report back.

[TwiceHorn 31685]

That it has already been cut open kind of indicates that it might have been lost by some ringmeat kid a few years back.

[Sbbruin 21912]

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'!

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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.

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

44 minutes ago, BBQ2Bayou said:

 

dp

Edited October 29, 2019 by Shoxthemonkey

[Deej 77173]

Lance Armstrong's steroid-ridden missing testicle.

[Jkwellborn 6877]

Maybe it’s Tom Orlando’s non blitz calls.

[pacman 7429]

1 hour ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

dp

Wait, what does double penetration have to do with all this?

[El Diablo 4232]

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?

[RPM 26429]

On 10/29/2019 at 6:41 PM, Shoxthemonkey said:

dp

Avatar and username checks out.

[Buffsoldier 1895]

On 10/29/2019 at 11:55 AM, Telegraph_it said:

Coprolite. 

[deft 6901]

You should meld it to someone’s tire as a prank.

[Victorious1 174]

Have you developed any super powers yet?  Hopefully Marvel and not DC...

[WhatTheBuck 28831]

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?

[BBQ2Bayou 807]

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. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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.

Edited November 7, 2019 by Shoxthemonkey

[Bevo 13635]

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.

[Bevo 13635]

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.

Edited November 7, 2019 by Bevo

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

1 hour ago, Bevo 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.

[Bevo 13635]

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.

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

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.

[Hugh G. Rection 156]

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!

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

Far out!