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Earth is saved! Again… It seems our Grandfather planet Jupiter has saved Earth from certain annihilation yet again. An invisible threat made itself visible on June 3rd when a rogue asteroid slammed into Jupiter and created a brilliant explosion visible from the relative safety of our own home planet.
At 20:31:29 on June 3rd, 2010 Anthony [...]
In the past couple few years while I’ve been studying meteorites, strewnfields, fireballs, and new meteorite falls, I’ve caught a LOT of flak from people. You would be amazed at the nastygrams and rude emails I’ve received over the past 3 years telling me I couldn’t hunt, that I don’t know anything about meteorites, that [...]
Over the last 3 years I’ve had the priveledge of meeting and hunting with some of the worlds most professional and influential meteorite hunters. I call many of them friends and have gained a great respect and admiration for those that are able to “get out there” and hunt for meteorites in the heat of [...]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune.
This artist’s concept of the needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping [...]
To understand how to identify a meteorite you must first know the types of meteorites there are. There is a set of identifying characteristics that most meteorites exhibit that will aid in identification.
Typically most meteorites contain iron and tend to be magnetic. They are usually heavier and much more dense than ordinary terrestrial stones due [...]
Ruben Garcia & Son just had a successful trip to the Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield. See the photos below on the wonderful Gold Basin meteorites they collected. 355 grams in all. Two of the fragments fit together… Wow! Great work guys!
The Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield is located in northern Arizona about 45 minutes north of [...]
As of April 22nd 2009 we’re still investigating this event.
On April 20th I was contacted by a man claiming to have a possible meteorite from the Merced Fireball which happened at around 3am Dec 27th 2008. Meteorite hunters and scientists have scoured the area and compiled much data on this event, however no one has [...]
Feb 25th: Texas Meteorite Expedition: Day 4 First Meteorite Found!
After much researching, searching, collaborating, driving, and some luck, ten days after a meteorite fell to Earth in West Texas I found my first piece of the newest known meteorite fall in the world!It’s a nice little fragment of this beautiful chondrite. Gorgeously fresh fusion crust [...]
METEORITES ARE ON THE GROUND IN WEST TEXAS!
In a small town North of Waco Texas, scientists from the University of North Texas and some lucky meteorite meteorite hunters have found meteorites from Feb 15ths Fireball in the sky.
There was a giant explosion that sent one local farmer scrambling for cover under his barn after he [...]
What the heck is up with this piece.? Maybe I’m crazy, or I’m missing something or maybe somehow I may have caused this, but I’m completely perplexed as to why this meteorite, that I just cut, seems to have some sort of oily residue seeping out of the stone.
Yes that’s right, oily residue, no it’s [...]
Most everyone has seen video and movies depicting the destruction of Earth by asteroids. Deep Impact, and Armageddon were two very famous movies produced on this subject. Doomsayers have been predicting an asteroid strike for years. It’s happened in the past and it one day it will happen again.
I for one wasn’t convinced that a [...]
Looking at this meteorite for the first time I was speechless. I stared in blatant wonder, mouth agape, and stunned at what I was holding. I was absolutely shocked, surprised and in awe at the spectical before me when I first held this gorgeous meteorite specimen in my hand. Never before in my entire life [...]
Meteorites are the coolest things on the face of the planet, in my humble opinion. They are space rocks, born in fire and have survived their course of travel through space for millions of years before being pulled through our atmosphere in a spectacular fireball to the Earth’s surface to be found by a human.
When [...]
