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A Photo Gallery of Meteorwrongs
Why this rock is probably not a meteorite:

...because if it looks like a vegetable, it's not a meteorite.
  
What is it?

Hard to say, but I bet it consists mainly of quartz.
     
See also: Some Meteorite Realities
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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-mail: korotev@wustl.edu