Why this rock is probably not a meteorite:

This thing was found in a river in Idaho. It's solid iron, the finder said.

Iron meteorites typically have bizarre shapes, but they're not this spheroidal.
  
What is it?

Probably some man-made object. A cannonball?
  

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Prepared by:

Randy L. Korotev


Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis


Please don't contact me about the meteorite you think you’ve found until you read this and this.

e-mailkorotev@wustl.edu