Meteorite Dagger?

Jeff Pringle · 6th August 2006, 07:42 PM

See what happens when you use the words 'meteorite' and 'dagger' in a thread title, Gene?

It had occured to me that pre-industrial iron would have a different (and more variable) chemical signature; I suspect it would not cause too much noise to obscure the extra-terrestrial signature over all the potential elements...there might be archaeological papers that have previous analyses on old keris, one could check them against modern steel & look for differences.

6th August 2006, 07:42 PM	#39
Jeff Pringle Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 189	See what happens when you use the words 'meteorite' and 'dagger' in a thread title, Gene? It had occured to me that pre-industrial iron would have a different (and more variable) chemical signature; I suspect it would not cause too much noise to obscure the extra-terrestrial signature over all the potential elements...there might be archaeological papers that have previous analyses on old keris, one could check them against modern steel & look for differences.