A rock is not just a rock according to Canada's only full time prairie meteorite searcher. This summer, University of Calgary student Dan Lockwood is travelling all over Western Canada looking for meteorites.
Meteorites are different from other stones in several ways.
They are often black and unusually heavy for their size, can be iron and have rust on them. Anyone suspecting they have a meteorite can test it by seeing if a magnet will stick to it. Meteorites will sometimes have a thin black crust on them from the heat generated by entering the atmosphere. They are usually not porous unlike slag which can be mistaken for meteorites. The best READ paper around This page has been visited times since Jnauary 1, 2001.