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Ready Your Specimen and Yourself For Expert Review

How do you know when it’s time to ask an expert about your rock? And what actually happens when you do? In this last episode, we reach the natural stopping point of at-home meteorite identification. If your rock has made it through the flowchart without being ruled out — or even if it didn’t — understanding when and how to contact experts is just as important as the tests we started with. Up to this point, we’ve relied on tools and observations you can reasonably do at home: magnetic attraction, density, grinding a window, comparing the inside and outside, and looking for features like fusion crust and regmaglypts. But those tools have limits. Making it through the flowchart does not mean you have a meteorite. It just means your rock hasn’t been ruled out by DIY methods alone. Everything beyond that requires experience, comparison, conversation, and sometimes laboratory testing. In this video, I explain: What “professional review” actually means When expert review is needed Where you can have your rock visually evaluated by experienced folks How peer review works in meteorite identification What information experts actually need from you How to present your sample clearly and responsibly I’ll also share some places where knowledgeable collectors and researchers regularly review samples, and explain why clarity, documentation, and letting the rock “tell its own story” matters more than trying to convince anyone of an outcome.    / @topherspinmeteorites   https://www.youtube.com/redirect?even...   / meteorite.or.meteorwrong   As we wrap up this series, your rock will be in one of two places: It showed evidence that ruled it out Or it showed enough consistency to justify expert review Both outcomes are valid. Learning how to confidently say no is just as important as learning when to say it might be. In a bonus episode, I’ll go deeper into why this flowchart works, how the logic behind it is built, and why it’s reliable — but fair warning, that episode will get a little more technical. Thanks for following this process from start to finish. This is what real identification looks like. A special thanks again to Chris Snaders for letting me use his photos    / @meteocracy   And the most enormous ThankYou to the fine folks who created this flow chart https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite...