Experiment: Simple home experiment to demonstrate that a remanence or magnetic memory exists in some types of meteorites. Pieces of Barringer Crater (AZ) and Odessa Crater (TX) meteorites (iron shales) are tested against (suspected) Clovis Comet material (which contains less iron).
Interpretations: The similarities and magnetic properties I am demonstrating could reflect that the host materials of these meteorites are related and recur every 13,000 years in meteor swarms. **** I believe this test is definitely the first of its kind on the internet. The magnetic pairing of the crater meteorites in itself is astounding to me I have not seen this mentioned anywhere. And of course I may be the first person doing home tests with actual Clovis Comet pieces. Also included is a gallery of potential Clovis Comet material. Note variations and grinded areas showing black-metal.
*We can look at 2012 more scientifically, but more simplified at the same time.*
In short:
*magnetic memory pairing of materials from different times and sites points to an occurance of debris falling from space, sometimes catastrophic, occurring every 13,000 or so years.
* Barringer crater occured 50,000 years ago, craters near Odessa about 63,500 years ago; Roughly 13,500 years apart, but very much the same composition. The two craters may still be related though, and related to others by being of the same parent body.
* The Mayan long count calendar resets every 26,200 years. Earth polarity cycles switch twice as often. Half cycles occuring every 13,000 years, triggering unresolved earth phenomenon. No wheels, but maybe the Mayans had MAGNETS AND METEORITES to work with.
* I repeated the experiment with pieces fresh out of the ground that had never touched a magnet or been near a magnet and got the same results.
* Clovis Comet pieces are only about 1/3 as magnetic as crater pieces, and display an even ratio of this magnetic memory.
Field notes
After visiting the meteor impact craters in Arizona and Texas and collecting samples I have discovered something. The individual pieces of iron shale (92% meteorite, 8% decomposed meteorite) from both places display a north and south polarity, a permanent magnetization that was present before being tested or near any magnets. If you place a magnet over them they line up the way another magnet would react. If you move the magnet away and then place it reversed over them, the shales make a 180-degree spin to correct themselves. (Regular iron objects do not do this unless paramagnetized, neither do other meteorites). In fact, in Odessa I found myself using this method in the field through a massive toothache to discern between the meteorites and the oilrig scraps lying around and it worked like a charm. A game of invention that kept my mind off the tooth; it was the last day of the trip. I remembered when picking up some of the Barringer material days earlier how it would flip around in a split second to correct itself when sticking to the magnet. It appears that both types of meteorites have nearly the same magnetic strength with this memory. It also appears I discovered one heck of a great, simple petrology test for these materials.
