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Comment on How To Identify Meteorites by timo

timo — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:46:08 +0000

Hi i am a meteorite hunter and i have some examples that i would like to show and/or donate only for help. the help i need is to make a positive ids on a pre iceage type of weathered fragments and if by chance it turns out to be a positive find than i have found a small strewn field ... please try to contact me on face book i am willing to send example @ my cost thanks much Tim

Comment on July-1960 Fireball Sighting Reports by Jim Eads

Jim Eads — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:49:10 +0000

I am posting a comment about this sighting in 1960. It sounds exactly like the same one I saw as a young child. My brother and I were with my Mom at a local laundromat. My mother was inside, no one was around and we were in the very small town of Thousand Oaks (pop. ~10,000). My brother was younger than I and we walked outside the laundromat and were playing on the sidewalk in front looking around and checking out the store front next door. We looked up because of this bright light and there it was… like nothing I have seen before or since. It was a huge burning ball of fire. It looked like what was described above. About the size of a golf ball in the sky. We could see the flames and the trail it left was sparkling with burnt orange pieces it moved across the entire sky. It went from east to west and looked as if it would land in the Pacific Ocean near the Channel Islands off of Oxnard, CA. I vividly remember two things:

1. The color was bright white and orange and I could see flames and sparks coming off of it.
2. We could hear a swishing noise without a sonic boom.

My brother and I went in and alerted our Mother about what had just happened and she told us it was probably a falling star. There wasn’t a green like trail left afterwards like so many rockets and missiles witnessed from the Vandenberg AFB up north.

I do believe this to be a fireball and have never waivered in my vision of what I saw and that has been 50 years ago. It was quite something to see as 4 year old kid and I am sure I will never forget it. I would love to see another one in my lifetime because it was truly amazing.

Comment on Meteorite Men Show by WARNE YOUNG

WARNE YOUNG — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:12:30 +0000

I will be going on my fireball recovery expedition at the end of this month . I seen it go by and I found it many years latter. Time to start gathering at the small end of the strewn field ,said to be one of the largest most densely covered ever found. Guess that makes me a meteorite man too?

Comment on MeteorWrongs by M.Ray

M.Ray — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:59:29 +0000

I aquired a rock last year from the home of an elderly person that passed away and left all to my mother. The rock was sitting on a mantle and when I picked it up the first thing that stood out was how extra heavy this rock was. I have been looking at pics from websites and have done all but the magnet test. I know that the persons husband was in the Army back in the early 40s and did some tours in Africa and Japan and wonder if it is a meteroite? I did not see a link to e mail some pics too so any help by anyone would be appreciated. If its not its not but its a cool rock anyway , thanks for any assistance.

Comment on How To Find Meteorites by Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:36:34 +0000

Hello, for the last two yrs i have been doing research on meteorites. While living in Ga. hunting arrow heads, i came across a rock that really stood out. I picked it up an noticed it was quite dense. Also had a shiny smooth crust with tiny bubbles covering it. the bottom side had destinct flow marks, like it had been really super heated. I took it to a few colleges and one museum. They all agreed it was different but no one could tell me what it was. I really got discouraged when i found that a magnet was not attracted to it. Until further research told me that not all meteorites are magnetic. Id very much like to send pictures and get your opinion. It weighs about thirty lbs and is a little bigger than a soft ball, the in side is a rusty brown with some hints of yellow and greenish. Could this be a Lunar or Martian meteorite. I now reside in Wisconsin and have become quite the meteor hound. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Wisconsin Meteorite Strewnfield [Map] “Mifflin” by Chris von Allmen

Chris von Allmen — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:48:57 +0000

I forgot to mention that our pieces have alot of burnt crust on them. What does this mean? Does it help tell what part of the big piece they came from? And also This is not a joke we really did find that many and the next time we are up that way I am going to metal detect the area because I know there is much more from the concentration we found. At that point I will give G.P.S. tag for youre map. Thanks

Comment on Wisconsin Meteorite Strewnfield [Map] “Mifflin” by Chris von Allmen

Chris von Allmen — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:25:02 +0000

Me, My wife and our 5 year old boy (at that time) were in Richland Center Wi the day after and my son found 33 pieces totaling about a quarter pound This is the first I have wrote about it. Pretty lucky find huh. Especially when we live 1100 miles away on the Gulf Coast.

Comment on Meteorite Hunting & Collecting Magazine: January Cover! by John Dujambi

John Dujambi — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:01:26 +0000

Dear Sir,

There is a huge metorite about 2 to 3 meters in diameter lodged deep into the mud stone in my land in Papua New Guinea.

I am inetersted in selling the Metorite. How do I get it to a buyer?

John Dujambi
jdujambi@gmail.com

Comment on MeteorWrongs by johnjay

johnjay — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:29:20 +0000

help eric
in need of help, i have a rock??? i found 25, 30, years ago. i found this in a load of shell rock
it is black, appears to be crusted with speckes inside. it is 10 inches long, 6 inches tall
it weighs 16 to 17 lbs. it is pitted with thumb print markings it also has a ridge on it as if it
is melted it is rounded on one end and odd shaped on the other end.
rick i had a local university look at this they tell me it is a meteorite. also had a local museum
look they dont know what it is. help

Comment on MeteorWrongs by Sally Brown

Sally Brown — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:34:03 +0000

Hello Eric,

First let me say, I laughed so hard at your article I had tears in my eyes… thank you!

Now for the real reason I am writing you is: do you purchase stone meteorites?
My nephew Andy Sims (finder/owner) of a meteorite he has been wanting to sell.

Here is just some of the information on it.

Octave Mine
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2004
Country: United States
Mass: 1304 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:

MB 91

(2007)

(this is an unpaired meteorite also.)
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Let me know what you think, Andy has asked me to help him find a buyer.
Thank you,
Sally Brown hdrn1@hotmail.com