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I can't know for sure that these were meteorites unless I got them tested, but they sure looked like it!
I am no expert in ET objects but i can say they looks beautiful.
Would you see any evidence if you cut or sanded them and looked at the inner crystal structure?
Will you update the results if you do test them?
The sphere one seems to be just a bb to me
Get em tested plz
Don’t mind me, just taking my magnet for a stroll.
came here for this.
Vladimir Putin But is it a rescue magnet ?
Vladimir...your security grip is getting sloppy, how did he acquire that meteorite from mother Russia ?
Jonathan Nadeau of course. He was mistreated at his old home so I took him in. Although he was a little shy at first, he gradually warmed up to me as we went on these casual walks around my house.
Vladimir Putin I heard that these rescue magnets are forever grateful and affectionate towards their owner. You did the right thing sir.
"There's that weirdo neighbor of ours walking his magnet..." - Neighbors
Oof I just commented similar without scrolling down...great minds think alike
lol
"Hey he has a name!! It's James!!" -A fan kid passing by.
@@kr4zyy x3
kr4zyy so are you saying you guys are smart and we’re not? That’s very offensive.
To think that meteorites are all around us and we won't even notice them because they're so tiny. It's very fascinating.
WTF STOP FOLLOWING ME
@@joey9385 then don't follow him👀👀👀
You got no life I swear
Not really if you paid attention to what is being taught in High School...
Just Some Guy without a Mustache your profile name..... it's funny
The neighbors see this guy taking his magnet for a walk. Been in the house too long
They: selling meteorite for millions You : Finding them in your driveway.
Parag Jain don’t forget the roof
they arent selling small pieces like that they are selling the ones the size he got from russia and bigger not minuscule ones like he found
The price depends strongly on what elements they are comprised of and size. The ones he found likely aren’t worth very much at all if anything.
Meterorites have a per gram price. They aren't actually that expensive as long as you aren't buying super rare or large complete meterorites.
It also depends on type. Stoney irons are usually the most expensive (aside again from super rare stuff like tagish lake meterorite samples).
Police: aren't you supposed to be in quarantine??? Action lab guy: oh, I was just taking my neodymium magnet on a walk!
The policeman´s gun snaps out the holster and bangs towards the magnet
Lol
America is a free country so they can only recommend for people to be quarantined where u from
@@cellominork5416 where I'm from, is also a free country. It's just that we're way more responsible as a country at this particular situation that the US. That's why when people are not staying home, and get caught being outside without having completed some sort of online or physical form they are obligated to pay a fine. Because you country is a "free" country, is why so many people have died in NY...
Mark ny is one of 50 states and if ur country is making laws to make u stay at home it’s not free
You're actually looking at the debris left by The Backyard Scientist...
😅
Or ground down debris.
Or maybe StyroPyro using his lasers on rocks
@@ThatUnknownDude_ lol I wish styropyro was rich so he could buy a laser that could explode meteorites
Day 30 or quarantine: I took my pet magnet out for a walk.
Lol
I took my pet rock out for a walk
@@souji7798 that's Patrick star stuff right there
Day 331 of quarantine: I took my pet meteorote out for a walk, we found magnets...
3:04~ @The Action Lab I think you should have wrapped the neodymium magnet in plastic wrap, or put it in a plastic bag, so you can remove the rocks more easily.
Yeah, he even has a bag next to the magnet, but never uses it. It is going to be a nightmare to clean the magnet ;)
4:04 You should have said "Oh nothing, I'm just walking my giant neodymium magnet pet"
thought exactly that XD
Neighbours: Is he seriously walking a heap of metal
that one neighbor who defends people despite not even knowing the situation: quarantine is hard, ok?
Well it's a good way to skip quarantine if you don't own a dog
Lol
"Honey, I think the self isolation has gotten to the weird neighbor guy. He's out there walking his magnet."
😂😂😂
@@markos1623 Wife: Is that the guy with the flashlight?
Actual video description: letting out my pet Neodymium
Neopet
Who let the neo out!!!
someone will ruin the 69 likes
4:00 other passers-by: why is he walking a magnet?
Is it at dog? Is it at turtle? NO. It's a meteor finder 2000
like walking a dog but to collect s**t instead of disposing it lol
Quarantine is affecting him
Actual answer: 4:04
Quarantine makes you crazy lol
He’s taking good care of his magnet, look, he’s even taking it for a walk.
Russia : meteorites falls from sky Russians : just a normal day of the sky having streaks of lights
That spherical one makes me think it might be from grinding and was just a big spark... idk maybe welding too?
or some of his thermite lmao
Looks like a ball bearing to me.
Or maybe from a shotgun shell?
Or maybe a meteorite?
Howdy Justice definitely not
Me: mom I want a pet Mom: we already have a pet at home Pet at home :
Lol
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I went to a science camp as a kid and we did the same thing! they are called micro meteorites. They are easily collected where water flows like drain pipes from the roof or gutters. Even smaller ones shown here are constantly falling. If you eat a bowl of cereal outside you are likely to eat at least one. To small to be ever seen even with a good microscope but your still eating space
I do magnet fishing and the magnet always comes back covered in small pebbles that I just throw back at the water.. I'll pay more attention for meteorites in the next fishing!
@@OAcessoPublico edit* I just rewatched the video and realized I basically said the same thing in the video...: be sure to get a microscope even a cheap one will help you tell the difference between Iron fragments natural to earth or micrometeorites, iron fragments will be jagged or flattish. Micrometeriotes will be round with small indentation. That's from falling through the atmosphere and burning evenly the pits are from inclusions burning faster or slower than the iron. Sometimes you can find ones you can hold in your hand visible to the naked eye. Incredibly 5.200 tons of meteorite material is added to the earth every year falling from space. You been hit by them many times without knowing.
Friends: hey do you have a pet? The Action Lab: yeah! Friends: cool. What animal? The Action Lab: Just my neodymium magnet. No big deal. Friends: 😑😑😑😑
Nobody: **meteorites** Dinosaurs: **Heavy breathing**
I hate these jokes, they make no sense, they are not funny, they are not original.
Victor Pelufaz they be no joke, thy things only legends know, **memes** and if you don’t know what they are you’re probably a boomer :flushed:
@@pelufaz8435 you probably got a camera roll full of minion memes
@@pelufaz8435 Bro do you know what memes are? If you don't then of course you think this guy is "crazy". Stop it. Get some help. Here ya go that's a meme
@@pelufaz8435 THAT'S HOW DINOSAURS DIED BY A METEOR
I'd love to see those tested. That spherical one looks a little too perfect to be a meteorite. Looks like a piece of a small ball bearing.
Too perfect? They are mostly perfect spheres when they are that small.
@@f5tornado831 so is shotgun shot fill, which goes down to sizes around 0.3mm and is available in many hard metals including steel. Those wouldn't be shiny chromed like bearing balls. I'd be shocked if that stuff looked any nicer under a microscope than the pitted thing James found. It would also readily magnetize in the time it was attached to his magnet.
Can u imagine looking out your window an seening your neighbor walking his Styrofoam pet
3:47 Here he demonstrates how to pull up the staples on your roof tiles!
"whatcha doin?". "nothing. Just walking my pet magnet"
(I'm a PhD geologist, although I have never done anything with meteorites.) I doubt these are meteorites. There are many ways that magnetic spheres can be created incidental to industrial-type processes or naturally. Welding steel sometimes produces molten iron droplets that fly through the air and harden. Steel making, especially the basic oxygen furnace, produces many molten droplets. Spheres of magnetic minerals can crystallize in nature; geologists call these "concretions." You might be better off using a weaker magnet. You might be picking up materials that are only weakly magnetic. Can you somehow measure the "magnetic susceptibility" of these materials? I have no idea how to do that. Walter and Louis Alverez serendipitiously discovered the K-T impact when they were trying to estimate the sedimentation rate of a shale layer that marks the K-T boundary. They were attempting to estimate the amount of extraterrestial material in the shale. The decided that the most practical way to do that was to measure the iridium concentration. I'd say the cheapest way to determine if these are extraterrestial would be to have them analyzed for iridium and see whether they have the iridium concentration of iron meteorites.
You seem to have a lil knowledge on what's what. I have so many magnetic rocks its ridiculous. Just seen a thing on geology in space and there seems to be only 1 difference between space rock and terrestrial and it minor. Any advice on how to thin out the real from the fake?
Sir, what if the Meteorits you found were just iron particles formed during an arc welding process. They also have identical surface finish as you found.
I tried and was thinking the same..
Scientists : Meteorites are Super Rare The action lab : Hold My Magnet
Meteorite are not super rare. About 17 good size meteorite fall to earth every year and not to mention the amount of micro meteorites that may have landed
The stuff you find could also be industrial fallout, Im pretty sure its quite similar to micrometeorites
You are such a nerd, and my favorite new channel. I can imagine, this is what I sound like to other people. The naturally enthusiastic glee and the never ending curiosity. I am actually shocked you have 2.5 million subs! Who knew there were so many smart viewers lol. You must have every one 👍🏻
The things quarantine do to a person😬
Imagine you're just out for a drive and you see a grown man just dragging a giant magnet around talking to a camera
Who else was expecting to hear a big “FONK”as that black van drove by and the magnet jumped to it while pulling him along like he was water skiing.
Great vid...hadn't though of using these magnets for this...have ordered mine now and will let you if i have any luck in NZ!
Loved when the van drove by and asked what you were doing ! Then you answer, "Looking for meteors " and he drives away like it is normal lol!
Tried this myself and had some great luck! Went into a foresty area near my house with a Neodymium magnet (smaller than his but still pretty big) attached to a PVC pipe and walked around like I was using a metal detector. Biggest one I found was nearly the size of my pinkie fingernail and ended up finding a couple dozen other ones too!
Have you verified it's authenticity
@@veggiejuice3004 Not officially but I did inspect it with a loupe and asked reddit about it and they seemed legit!
@@R462venom try to visit museum and ask for verification or research on how to identify meteorite
What if that spherical one was some Shotgun "Shot" or a metallic BB Bullet? Both are small, metal spheres. Just a thought, be awesome if they are meteorites though.
I had the same thought
@@ChayComas I did too
Real size BBs are freaking HUGE under a microscope and usually contain soft metals like lead and not iron. You want your rounds to deform on impact. Iron doesn't like to be deformed on impact at normal temperatures.
@@win132001 steel bb's contain iron not lead, i know its crazy
Thanks! I just got a fishing magnet this year. So I tried finding meteorites and found about 10 tiny ones. Cool video!
You should do more videos like this. So fascinating to watch
When I was around 8 I got hit by a meteorite. I heard it coming through the tree leaves and then it hit my shoulder, then landed in the leaves. I searched around and found it, it was round with small pockets, and warm. Kept it for years, eventually lost it unfortunately, but still cool to get hit by one.
Wow!
Could it have come from that kid down the street with the slingshot?
sounded like someone from heaven shooting slingshots to random people
If it is a true meteorite and you found it, it can be worth big bucks as meteorite hitting a men is history
@@deandeann1541 Nope! I lived out in the country side, no other homes around me. It was 100 percent a meteorite. I starred at it for hours every day, I have that image implanted in my head forever. I've looked at them on on ebay, it's pretty easy to distinguish as a meteorite.
When he said rocks I didn't realize he's talking about grains of sand.
Fascinating!! Thank you for your tireless efforts. God bless.
They look like welding waste, which is supposed to be common in cities, on roads, even on rooftops. Maybe someone in your local university's chemistry department will get them analysed for you and see if they contain nickel. I'd've done it for you when I was in school. A flame spectrometer might be useful - although I'm about 40 years out of date in instrumental analysis. A mass spectrometer or an x-ray difraction spectrum might help too.
05:34 - Wow, this looks just like those supposed "iron microspheres" found in the 9/11 debris. Some people claimed they were made by thermite reactions, and that the molten iron turned to small microspheres while falling, and that they cooled and solidified before they hit the ground. However, this appears to be evidence to the contrary. I've never seen meteorite spheres like this before. _EDIT: Although, they did find red/grey chips where the red side was almost pure Iron(III) oxide with condensed pure aluminium powder, and unnaturally large amounts of sulphur were present in the same samples. That couldn't be explained except for "nano-thermite". Anyway, digressing!_
No one: Dinosaurs: *Why do I hear boss music?*
The round thing..might be a welding droplet..(when they weld.. the molten mental takes..this form..) I am saying this because I found one exactly similar to yours.. and there was recent welding here...
You never disappoint big brother your videos are always just amazing 😍, cool and then they are approached beautifully by scientific explanation!
Next time, put your magnet in a plastic bag. Then when you are done, turn it inside out, and you have all your iron debris in the bag, and your magnet is clean. 😀
He has a zip bag in one of the shots but doesn't use it for some reason. Maybe this is where he stored the magnet? Sooner or later bag breaks a bit and leaks, but it is still far easier to clean the debris ;)
I remember the first time u bought this magnet... u were even scared to put your hand under knife plate (large surface area) but now.....
Omg that’s hella cool I love your vids man please keep it up
This channel is amazing. You have earned a subscriber.
*"Pet Foam On A Leash Has Entered The Chat"*
The action lab was hit by a meteorite brain when he was a kid, since then he attracts his wife like a magnet. Brilliant ❤
Another great video! Time to take my kids outside and look for meteorites! Thank you so much!
"I'm just takin' my magnet sled for a walk...." good vid. Thanks!
Once I was sitting in my living room and my intire house lit up my brother thought he saw a meteorite outside falling and we never found it
Wow nice
Fireballs are more common than people think. I've seen a number of them, but I have lived in wilderness areas way up North, where the skies are clear and unobstructed and winter nights are very long. I've seen red ones, white ones, bright green ones, ones that shot out sparks, ones that left smoke trails, even one that seemed to make a crackly, hissing sound, although I can't be sure the noise came from the fireball. Throwing sparks is common on big ones. PS I've had an interest in astronomy since I was a child, and I'm getting old. I've got many decades of paying attention to dark skies. Also, some meteor showers occasionally will produce a fireball PPS Regular shooting stars can be seen on any clear night that you really want to pay attention long enough, so long as you live away from light pollution.
@@deandeann1541 Not sure if you'll ever get this reply but I also heard a meteor. I was young at the time and didn't think much of it. As time passed, I realized it would be impossible to hear a meteor in real time. Such distant objects would have a sound delay. But I know I heard it, and I know I heard it in real time. This led me to do some research and eventually I discovered a science paper on how some meteors create powerful radio emissions in their plasma trail. These radio emissions can interact with things such as vegetation to produce sound. I only know one other person who has heard a meteor. It's a small club.
Iron: O hello there magnet seems like I'm attracted to u
I love this, do more of this
Perfect timing. A few days ago I was lucky enough to witness a meteorite falling in close proximity to myself and property. It was around 2am, the surrounding environment was very quiet, and I believe I heard particles striking the earth in the near by forest. I have a neodymium magnet and with the info gathered here, I will now plan and execute a grid search for the possible meteorites.
There are clubs that do that , They sit up at night , and watch the sky , and all plot courses if they see something , and then put it all on one map , and go look .
“... most definitely ... I’m guessing.”
Before I'd call them "actually meteorites" I'd check them for high nickel content. How to do that non-destructively with samples so small is another thing.
I'd check them for iridium.
I’d do nothing because it wouldn’t be worth it
I wonder would a hand held x-ray spectrometer work on something so small?
Verge science has a video titled "Tiny meteorites are everywhere" where they actually go through the entire process of find out if he found micro meteorites
3:19 honey that weird neighbour is walking his weird dog again
0:02 looks like someone in the shower try to use smooth metallic soap 😁
1st
That is cool! Wish I had one of those magnets because I’d go look for some but then I do t have a microscope, but I wish I had one..I’d have fun looking at stuff.
He is gonna save us all by repelling the meteorite coming to us in April . . Respekttt
Neighbors: He's walking his magnet again. Poor guy, we should see if we can fix him up with Thelma, she needs a husband.
My uncle has one of those magnet roller things to pick up nails maybe I’ll put a GIANT magnet in it to try this lol
Interesting video! Nicely done :D
I really learned something today. Thanks. But can these rocks you found be explained by any other natural processes other than being meteorites?
FINALLY! 😄 THANK YOU !! this is what i needed to know and have been looking for . 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😆🤘✌🙏 This is a Eureka moment TY !!!❤
Uuuhhh, front yard? Lol I must've missed that part. I never seen a yard in this video haha. Pretty freaking cool. I'll start doing this
I’m going to start walking my magnet…this looks awesome!
When quarantine gets to your head: taking a magnet for a walk! 🤪
Very cool. So hard to imagine how everything began.
this mans is never bored
thanks ill be sure to take my magnet on a walk this weekend
so cool! BTW, can you try to carve hard stone with a tuning fork? or is that even possible.
Looked for a second like the A-Team took notice of your actions !
Awsome video! (Next time please crack one open and show us the layers inside under the microscope)
Thank you for this video. I am very interested in this project. I think my grandkids and I would enjoy hunting for them. Neodymium magnets have been ordered. Can you tell me what power microscope you are using?
I think your first blob is welding spatter, however the second is interesting!
Good job describing what to look for.
Hey look James is going on a walk with his new pet 3:32
A magnetic metal detector/harvester that doesn't require any electrical power! Brilliant!
Best video since the end of times
At 3:54, Hello, I'm just walking my magnet.
Wow! Need to try this.
I’m convinced I have one as it meets the field test criteria, it’s attracted to a neodymium magnet, it has a crust and when you file it, there are thousands of tiny silvery speckles. It’s about two thirds the side of a golf ball. 🤷♂️
As you mentioned, the only way you'd truly know if they are legitimate meteorites is to have tbem test. How are they tested? Who would you send them to? Is this a viable/affordable process in which you could do a follow up video on?
Most colleges will have a geology department, or at least a teacher or two. I'd start there and they can probably point you in the right (preferably local) direction, if they're unable to give you the answer.
Would be curious to know given you were picking up those from the asphalt. When a road is being paved, the asphalt mixture is usually heated to at least 250 degrees, sometimes 275. This allows it to be poured easily. Some of it also depends upon the tar vs. rock and binder mixture. Pure tar by itself becomes rather gooey and can be poured at over 200 degrees. So I have to wonder if you just happened to have gathered asphalt binding materials
He did, but in a big enough sample, some of those will also inevitably be extraterrestrial in origin. Falling stuff from space is not new and will be found at any level on or in the ground, in any environment. Some started out very tiny and sifts down through the atmosphere as dust.
4:00 Lmao that guy must’ve thought you were insane XD
The Action Lab takes his pet magnet for a walk to catch meteorites together.
3:06 What a beautiful day to take your pet neodymium magnet for a walk
3:55 Don't mind me, neighbors, just walkin' my magnet here. I call him little Neo.
Me: misses five seconds of the vidoe and comes back at the man walking his magnet
Neighbour: hi what u doing today? The action lab: nthn much just taking my magnet for a walk
I've always wanted to try this!
Wow I found a bunch of those near my welding table - round just like yours . A truck or car that a mechanic took torch to can explain your road kill finds.