Rare meteorite found in Kansas field - Don't Look Now - The sky is falling

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Rare meteorite found in Kansas field

New ground-penetrating radar technology might someday be used on Mars

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15294523/?GT1=8618
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By Roxana Hegeman
Updated: 4:55 p.m. MT Oct 16, 2006

GREENSBURG, Kan. - Scientists located a rare meteorite in a Kansas wheat field thanks to new ground penetrating radar technology that some day might be used on Mars.

The dig Monday was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find, with researchers painstakingly using brushes and hand tools in order to preserve evidence of the impact trail and to date the event of the meteorite strike. Soil samples were also bagged and tagged, and organic material preserved for dating purposes.

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Now this article is about how new technology is making it easier for someone to find iron type meteorites, here on Earth and maybe on Mars. This one was 154 pounds. Hit Earth less than 10,000 years ago. Just a blink of the eye, geologically speaking. The "Native Americans could have seen it."

If you read the article you will find a link to an earlier article about another iron meteorite found only a quarter of a mile away that weighed 1,400 pounds.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10007802/

There is a nice picture at the above link, that is nice, if you are a collector of meteorites. Not nice if one was to land on your car.

I wonder how many lumps of iron you could find on the Moon?

There is money to be had by finding meteorites and selling them.

http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/
http://www.meteoritesplus.com/
http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/Iron.htm
http://www.meteoriteman.com/
http://www.mars.li/labels.html

Enough, there were 613,000 hits on GOOGLE for the search words, "meteorites sale", 48,000 if you put the " " around the key words.

http://www.meteoriteguy.com/catalog.htm
http://www.meteorites.cl/b-venta/sale-izquierda.htm
http://www.meteorite.com/Erichs/

May I suggest, let the buyer beware.

And if things falling from the sky are of interest, you might join a list that discusses such things.

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Now do you want to sit here and wait for the sky to fall on you or might learning where the rocks are and going to them be worthwhile?

How about "MINING THE SKY" by John S. Lewis for some thoughts.
http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Riches-Asteroids-Planets/dp/0201328194

There is a review for MINING THE SKY - Untold riches from the asteroids, comets, and planets at THE ARTEMIS PROJECT.
http://www.asi.org/adb/b/01/miningthesky.html

More reasons to go the Moon.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://www.rockhounds.com/tucsonshow/reports/tucson2006/p3.shtml
n October 2005 meteorite hunter Steve Arnold employed a sensitive metal detector to search the rural Kansas strewn field of the previously discovered Brenham pallasite. Brenham is the most plentiful pallasite known with over 3 tons of Brenham estimated by some sources to have been recovered and collected since the fall was first recognized as a meteorite by homesteader Mary Kimberly in the 1880s.

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Happy Tucsoning in 2006

Sharing is an important part of meteorite collecting. Whether stories, pictures, experiences, or physical specimens, the exchanges between enthusiasts is a large part of the enjoyment of this sport. In this installment of The Accretion Desk, I'd like to share a few treasures and experiences from Tucson 2006. Although I did not expect (nor could afford) another windfall of specimens like Tucson '05, I did hope to return home with meteorite riches, both tangible and intangible. And Tucson '06 did not disappoint.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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