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

Some of the clasts are layered. That means it's a terrestrial rock. It takes gravity to make layered rocks. Meteorites come from bodies with little or no gravity.
  
What is it?

A pebble conglomerate.
  


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