In the early 60's my friend and I were playing outside one summer day (we were children) I was in perfect position to see a huge iridescent ball of blue, green,red and yellow shooting low in the sky. My friend saw it when I yelled and pointed. It turned out to be a near miss meteor of gigantic proportions that was visible in the sky for a few seconds I figure I was about 10 years old. WOW! I found out in the next day's newspaper that it was a meteor that hit the atmosphere in a roughly North to South path that landed or broke up in Maryland. Life Magazine had 2 pictures, one a focused snap in black and white and the other a color snap not very focused but still awesome! I mean come on, We saw this event with our own eyes! How cool! Both photos were taken by people who were taking pictures of their families and quickly diverted their cameras if I remember correctly. The color photo was purchased by Life Mag for a serious amount of money Here in Connecticut there was a house in Wethersfield that was hit by a meteorite in 1957. It was hit by a meteorite again some 25+ years later. As Yogi Berra says "you can look it up". I'm 69 now so keep in mind I am working off of direct memory. If I'm off by a small bit please keep the comments uninsulting.
Welcome to the meteorite club. I am 74 and had an experience best explained above. In 1957 during summer I was in Phoenix and say a B-58 Hustler Bomber light up the Afterburners and streak across the sky, south to north. We old geezers have been around a long time so had experiences. And those days the sky was much clearer. Remember watching Telstar, America's first satellite? I watched that many times in the backyard in Chicago. Tip, retirement is far better down my way. I rent a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 car garage on 23 acres for $153 a month. Had I not raised my own rent 5 months ago it would be $132. That allows me to travel all the tings I have ever wanted, 3 months a year traveling Internationally. Even with a wife do all this on just $800 to $1000 a month.
I am 69, retired and was looking to retire to Arizona but I hear it's expensive to buy land. If I could find acreage like you have that is buildable and is able to produce water (well) I would move there in a second! I can build anything with wood, stone or steel. For many years I subscribed to the magazine "Arizona Byways". $153 a month? Point me in the right direction please!! I pay way more than that in property taxes alone! Retired Veteran 1970/73.@@riskyron1416
@@jeffreyhollister1149 That's really cool! Finding them is hard. It may seem like they landed real close but could have burned up completely or landed 100's miles away.
They were very close to me just a short walk to the bar where they appeared to land. However I don't know what burned up or made it to the ground they were small meteors.
I got hooked in early and watched the whole program and appreciate that it wasn't a waste of 47 minutes. The new iron is really beautiful, congrats to Arnold and Notkin!.
I skipped over this show a few times, ok many few times. I am very glad that I did click on it and watch it tho! Great balance of suspenseful moments, and actually finding what they search for is really cool to see! Nice to see hard work paying off especially some of those big bolder type samples they have found. Incredible stuff for sure
@@FireballSteve Had never heard of the Tucson Ring. But recently moved near the area you searched in. Dad grew up in Winslow, so I expected to be seeing a show about that one, but this was way cool. Good job on all of it.
If the hole was from the first, I propose : The Nickel-Iron complex came in red hot and molten. It hit a bed of sand which insulated it by coming up to temp itself. The impact was strong and the central section was pushed out by the 'central uplift' of the impact. The ring cooled and the big end was likely down hill from the small one. That is me, a retired Sr. Scientist thinking out of the box.
i think this is the meteor craters core...it was never found and is pretty close to the area..its in the direction of its impact and they only found small bits all over the countryside
"It hit a bed of sand which" -sand which- sandwich A bed sandwich. I'm no scientist but my theory is that it hit a bed sandwich, bounced off of the bed, and landed in the grass. Then little dwarves found it and carved it into the shape that it is now. No wait, your way sounds a lot better. I think your right. (Sorry for being silly. My tooth hurts and I can't sleep.) I had a piece of a meteorite once. I love rocks and minerals. That's me, a former Marine with a community college education and a sleep deprived mind. Take care.
I had a meteorite fly directly over my head one night while I was calving up here in M.T. it disintegrated before it hit the ground it crackled just like the firework called meteor shower at first I thought someone was playing a trick on me it was so close I could hear the particals hit the frozen ground what a spectacle I saw many more in the distance that night.
The hardest part will be to find a REPUTABLE place to Actually test it PROPERLY. Most labs quit testing for possible meteorites because the customer goes psycho when told the sample is not a meteorite. They even get death threats. NEXT problem is reputable labs don't agree on what is the best test. This video has them do a scanning electron microscope and an Energy Dispersive X-Ray. (I seriously scowl at the idea that ALL Meteorites Have Some Nickel. "All" and "Never" shouldn't be in the vocabulary. Thus, All the Rare ones will be tossed in the junk heap. It would be closer to correct to say they all have some Iridium in them.) -- Other sources say a Petrographic Microscope must be used. Starts with a very thin slice of the sample examined with polarized filters. Meteorite understanding, and especially their identification, is still in its infancy.
Great job , patience is a virtue. And a new meteorite too! Awesome ! I enjoyed your video and your quest into the desert the terrain was beautiful and native and serene . It felt so cozy . As you were walking around. Of course taking precaution s for snake and scorpions is always a must and plenty of drinking water! H2 O helps. Best wishes on your future finds and search adventures . Another video would be nice to watch. Flat tire made me laugh , driving skills practice makes perfect . hahaha. Your humor helped make it light hearted as well. Thank you for sharing and showing Tucson meteorite Famous in museum . That's awesome! I didn't know about it's use as a blacksmith horse show table it was used for sharing horse shoes . As in olden days people used what was around the desert to work on their skills who knew. Now if science around and able to identify rocks at a glance that's even better. Thanks for Historical facts as well. 😁🏜️
I live near where they are doing this. Half the year you can do this outside "100 degree heat" its our fall and winter and it is perfect usually in the 60s to 70s. With clear skies and sun, a slight breeze. Perfect.
I live in Arizona and the summers are brutal. Fall and winter, absolutely beautiful. In the summer I turn into a sloth 😌. I have to say though I can’t take the desert full time. Dry everything, and dusty
@@BajaGirl302 well im originally from the north, wa state near the border UP THERE at 21 i moved to save money for school since the cost of living was low and work was abundant. But, i work outside. Always have. Cold never bothered me, you can always work harder or dress up some. I dont get the luxury of going inside. Wish i did. The heat is different. Cooling off is harder People i work with who were born here and lived here all their lives, also despise the summers and want to move one day because of the heat. Lol
In the Antarctic the meteorites were on the surface also , easier to spot on the glacier, more difficult in the dry vallies. The NSF frowned on taking souvenirs so the little guys are still there.
As a retired scientist, I seriously scowl at the idea that ALL Meteorites Have Some Nickel. "All" and "Never" shouldn't be in the vocabulary. Thus, All the Rare ones will be tossed in the junk heap. It would be closer to correct to say they all have some Iridium in them. Other sources say a Petrographic Microscope must be used. Starts with a very thin slice of the sample examined with polarized filters. Meteorite understanding, and especially their identification, is still in its infancy.
The joys of 'TV-friendly science' where the narrative is written by non-scientist script writers and the detailed scientific analysis is stripped out. While I completely agree that words like 'proven' & 'never' shouldn't be part of a scientist's lexicon, the majority of the general public glaze over when you say _"the evidence we've collected to date strongly suggests that...."_ so your average TV producer often does some creative editing. They obviously perform more detailed analysis off-camera to differentiate a terrestrial iron from a likely meteorite, using more than the SEM & EDX to check the samples against their library of local terrestrial iron & other rocks before discounting them as meteorites. Unfortunately science often falls foul of mass media oversimplification....
@@medea27 Yes. You're right. I think I grew bitter as a scientist because of how much Management with their business degrees can hear, "The average results are..." and they go forward believing ALL results are that.
Where did you catch one of us saying that here? Was it in the context of this particular iron meteorite…this all iron meteorites have some nickel in them? Because that is true. Yes, some achondrites have no iron, but the irons do. It’s possible the comment was captured out of context or something was misspoken…or maybe even we were wrong.
@@FireballSteve It's all good... it wasn't anything said explicitly, it was more how the science was simplified for the sake of fitting a TV show. Scientists can just find it frustrating when a TV show presents ideas in absolute terms, because it's impossible to know something with certainty in science. So rather than saying _"all iron meteorites have nickel in them"_ we'd say _"all iron meteorites collected to date have contained nickel"..._ it's a small difference in wording, but it's acknowledging we can't know that _every_ iron that's hit Earth contained nickel because hunters like you guys haven't found them all yet! 😎 I think BigSmiler just got a bit frustrated & forgot that when you're presenting science on TV it's better for the editors/producers to simplify some concepts to make them more digestible for the average viewer. It was an awesome show though... you & Geoff are the perfect 'odd couple' to fire people up about the science & fun of meteorites. And your various tow-able inventions were genius BTW 😎👍
Well, just the fact that they're out in the midday, Summer heat, of the SW desert, proves their bubble is off center. Drug smugglers, and human traffickers, aka, Coyotes, are smarter than that, so no danger there. What is out and about in the Summer, is all the dangerous wildlife, they featured. Most of which, are hibernating in the Winter months. Duh.... But, that Summer heat, is what's most likely to kill you. And does so regularly, every year.
@@chachadodds5860 bro i live down here stfu. Coyotes dont give a shit about the real canine coyotes out here or any bobcats or anything else they're from fucking mexico and the sonoran desert doesn't stop at the border I lock my truck.
I wrote these two c/o Ariz University but never got an answer. I used to live in a small town in Iowa and one night when I was up, like 2:30 in the morning, a meteorite came down no more than eight hundred feet from my house!! Scared me to death! If they had contacted me, I would have shown them where to metal detect. I would have done it myself, but I no longer have a metal detector.
The finder of the Tucson ring did not take the larger pieces because his donkeys could not haul anything larger (donkeys not horses). These guys need to do more research they are in the wrong place...they need to go east of tubac in the Mt Wrightson wilderness.
I like Jeff how he respects and protects all wildlife, Steve doesnt care and if Jeff wasnt there he would most likely just run over or stamp on the wildlife for no reason! Very sad!!!
@@honeybee6858 i save everything i can, if i see a slug or snail crossing a path i will pick them up and move them to a safer place, most insects live very short lives some only a day but a Snail can actually live upto 30 years!! if i see a Bee just sat on the floor i will pick them up and put some honey on a plate with the Bee just in reach, the honey gives them a huge energy boost, ive revived at least 4 large Bee's doing this. I hate to see anything suffer!
Interesting. I lived in Arizona, Chandler and Phoenix from 1995 to 2019. I remember seeing the most amazing meteor back around 1996 I think it was. I was out in the back yard in Chandler with my telescope when the Southern sky lit up. Almost daylight and I saw a huge and long lasting meteor breaking up, down towards Tucson. I have seen another one in the afternoon from Chandler, pretty bright and very visible. I have hiked often during those years from Flagstaff on down South. I completely understand the time and effort that it takes to do what you do. A great state for hiking and telescope viewing. Thanks
Since we didn’t think we found the spot…the place didn’t need to be guarded as closely as we would have insisted the production company keep sensitive info out.
I grew up in those hill, trees are mesquites. you can eat coiled string bean like legumes from them. One of the longest root system of any tree. I used to throw rope around the ocotillo and sell them to ranchers who used them for fences. We were in our before teens and had a group pull gun on us. Once we told our parents.. they were hunted down... Local ranchers and rangers all of sudden started to look for them.. We did not think it was that big a deal.. But strong message to leave the locals alone for sure. Later we were told that the hunt started as soon as we told story and it started like 50 miles out and any and all who got caught in circle prosecuted smallest reason .. like trespassing to drug and immigration reasons. Little late.. but Thank you Desert Rangers for keeping us all safe . Just look at how rustic that land is. We would lay back and look at satellites swing by at night. Wish i knew about meteorite back then.
Most meteorites have some component of nickel or iron, but not all - there are rarer versions called ACHONDRITES such as the Allende meteorite, easy to confuse with terrestrial basalt objects
Hint.....Try to anticipate the direction must meteorites come from and search on the sides/tops of those hills etc. etc., not in those valleys, and so on. Trace the way back form the locations of those pieces and figure the lines they came from. Look for impact marks as well to predict bouncing etc etc. Then I saw the diagram of the strewn field and I am ....duh. Thanks anyway.
They actually don't have a consistent direction. They have a perceived radiant point if they come from a comet, but litterally radiate all the way around that area. Regular meteorites go all which way. There used to be a bollie tracking Network for the huge fire balls, but I can't remember where I saw it on NASA's pages I think it was probably lost in their last reshuffle. Also small heavy stones on the tops of mountains will get washed down in the rain storms. That's why panning for gold in Old streams, works.
I truly wish these guys were planetary geologists. Everything here is basically conjecture from the opinion of lay people simplifying down a very complex field of study that require lots of complex analyses that is done exclusively in laboratories throughout the world-not a field trip arranged by fortune seekers.
OBTW - The Tucson Meteorite will NOT hang on a magnet. The reason it was used as an anvil in the President was like a natural stainless steel and would not flake when struck as they hammered the hot iron into shape. Also, the area has changed over the thirty years since I was out there for access. Hint: Rosemont Mine may upset the area for looking at the impact result on surrounding rocks and ejecta field from strike.
Uhhh, you guys realise that this was a TV show filmed over a decade ago? That the film crew was creating drama by overselling the idea of filming at a 'super secret site'?? That Steve & Geoff were in the business of meteorite hunting for over a decade _before_ the show filmed, so there's no way they'd be giving away the location of any profitable 'super secret site' on national TV, especially if it was on a property owner's land who is named in the show?! LOL
@@medea27 you're beyond genius aren't you? And have no sense of humor. Question, is he your "president"? The current thing that occupies the "white house" for the time being.
Hey guys. I was fishing on the Verde River in Arizona in 1978. A meteorite impacted on the sand bank on the river roughly 30 yards away. Went and got two small pieces of it. Highly magnetic. But if you like I can try to steer you to the location. I now live in Costa Rica last few years. So no interest. Also have places you can find gold as well as platinum nuggets. For years I had thought those were spent 22 rimfire bullets, but seemed too hard. And eventually found they were platinum. Ever get down to Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Peru, maybe I can put you on to other places. Mainly gold and silver. But maybe meteorites which the Inca and others prior revered. I am an old timer with metal detectors. Old Compass, Tesoro, darn forgot the other brand I owned. How about tipping me off on a good current detector. Hopefully something around the $600 range, maybe another around $1500. Don't want to spend too much until I see results. contact. All yours and free, I will not be returning to the US again, but want to put this knowledge to good use. But not to the entire public. BTW, my great uncle was two term Arizona Governor. One term US Senator losing to Barry Goldwater in 1952, then Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice. And Barry was a friend and neighbor of mine. I first met him when I was in Vietnam on MARS Radio. Also a friend of John McCain. I was Chief Metrologist at a rocket plant in Mesa. He was first running for Congressman. The company made the rocket for his ejection seat that launched him into North Vietnam. So I gave him the tour. But told him when that happened I had no part. I was a Sergeant in Vietnam myself repairing microwave, tropo and radar. Both Barry and John were Life Members in the NRA. I was at the time a Patron Member, later Benefactor. Also some mines in California related to the San Fernando Mission. That one is silver. Get a message to me or tell me how to contact. All the info is free. Just want someone to benefit from it.. No idea the size of the meteorite, but most must have buried. The pieces I fount likely broke away at impact. But were I to guess likely basketball size. When it came in it was hot and burning and seemed like it nearly hit the end of my rod. roughly a north to south trajectory.
It's a donut shape, maybe because it might have exploded from the inside out in an electrical explosion. The differential charge of the object and Earth can cause meteors to electrically explode before they hit Earth's surface. This has been observed in may recent videos of meteors coming in from above. Just before hitting land they explode. Some of the fragments can still fall in chunks apparently because pieces like these are found on the ground, and without leaving an impact crater. The "Thunderbolts Project" channel has many videos on this subject. Researcher have been experimenting with electrical discharges to recreate feature found on this planet as well as features found elsewhere in the solar system. When meteors explode they can even leave a crater without even impacting the ground. This can be caused by the shock wave that the explosion creates. Researcher Andrew Hall has some of the best videos on this subject that I have seen so far. His theories are fascinating.
That track crawler has got to be the most useless, slowest, expensive, oversized and heavy p.o.s. to get around, I've ever seen. While they tear up the land everywhere they go.
It was all you said. It was a cool idea that didn’t pan out so well…but they kept the footage in because it was funny. I don’t always break everything…in spite of what Geoff says in other episodes
Seems odd a perfect circle, and inner circle for a meteorite which a meteorite would not drop strait from overhead. Maybe its not a meteorite but a collapsed volcano.
Did they go hunting for meteorites in Southern Arizona in the summertime? Just so they can stay how hot it is? And now a third question. Just how many times did they say how hot it was?
Having lived in the actual area they searched, more than 35 years, I can honestly say that with that amount of cloud cover in that mountain range 108 is quite exaggerated. Not sweating one drop... Walking miles on end, in 108... are they extraterrestrial?
Am wondering with all your casting about why you are not using rough grid tape? Using a scatter diagram approach leaves a lot of unexplored space inbetween youtr random tracks.
Yes, we only had a few days to hunt and film when we would need a thousand days to cover it all appropriately. We were more sampling, and if we found something from the Ring we would have gone back and the episode would have ended differently.
Not sure where near Tucson these guys are but one of them said this Tucson Ring is the most famous meteorite in the world. I live in Tucson and until this video, I never heard if it. Good luck guys. Drink lots of water!
@@buckroger6456 Yeah, I was thinking more like Arivaca or Tubac (which was mentioned) area. At least they did find a pretty nice little piece of a meteorite after all that work.
@@jeffrobarge6378 my guess is from what the story says the Tucson meteorite wasn't found in Tucson but was later brought there. I ride up in most of the mountains in Tucson so right from the start I could tell they weren't in our area but a little farther south.
Right...but they were further South, in the Santa Ritas. Drink lots of water, yes, but they shouldn't have been out there hunting meteorites, in the midday, Summer heat, to begin with. November/December, would've been smarter; cooler daytime temps, fewer deadly wildlife, since many of them hibernate in Winter. The one dangerous species these guys weren't likely to cross paths with, is "drug smugglers," or "Coyotes," since they're at least smart enough not to be trekking across the SW desert, during this time of day, in the Summer. And the dark, wool felt hat! Oy! Get a Panama, for God's sake!
Maybe a proton magnetometer? I had one years ago. Unfortunately it mostly found buried automobiles and scrap metal, once some coffins. Those all has silver hardware. I offered to repair and rebury them, but swap the silver for brass. Even replace the grave markers where possible. That was a no deal. A shame as it wasn't long all was destroyed by flooding. I think 2 years after.
Not likely....for decades,, this area, was regularly used by the military, for training ops. Tucson, is just North, and home to, Davis-Monthan Airforce Base.
QUESTION: Is there any evidence that meteorite falls are of homogenous material. I feel it is very likely that one meteorite may contain several types of metal makeup, especially when it disentigrates on entering the earth's atmosphere
In the early 1970's we were southbound on CA. State Hwy 111 at about 10:39 pm during the summer. My friend and I were about 3-5 miles south of the State Park in Salton Sea. We suddenly saw what appeared to be a huge ball of fire traveling south to north over the Salton Sea. It looked like an old time movie prop as it had flaming debris falling straight down. I was wondering why it wasn't streaming out behind the object. As low as it looked I would chance to say it landed in western Arizona or the bombing range east of Indio California and south of the I-10. This has to have been about 1971-72.
It is definitely cool that several of the finds really do seem to jump out at you visually compared with what appears to be the vast majority of rock and mineral pieces that make up that terrain. I tried a little work with mineral ... 'rock hounding' I think it was called. A small kit of various mineral samples, book about characteristics like color and hardness and whatnot. But the limitations on my travel, and the fact that my area of Baltimore County, MD was so much clay and sediment... it didn't hold my interest long. My limited experience advice? Get your kids a decent rock tumbler starter kit along with the rock hammer and mineral testing solutions, so even the boring pieces can be cleaned up. Even simple quartz, granite, and metamorphic samples can clean up to be pieces with their own beauty, or enough to use for art or jewelry and such.
Making me home sick ,grew up on the San Pedro River valley .go to Tucson over Redington pass were you came up or San Manuel, Oricele Catalina into Tucson .got to check out the 🔥 agite copper canon out side mamuth
@@landtuna8061 after 60 your eyes started going bad,the VA has never got by glass right,my fingers to big for keys , and there on the biggest mode ,but l try thanks
I've taken that trail from I-10 to Mammoth the trail is still there from the old ghost town through Catalina. It's easy as pie nowadays it's a half a days trek and maybe a case or 2 of beer!
has anyone thought about these meteor pieces coming from meteor crater...they never found its iron core just pieces of it all over and this is only a couple hundred miles away...which by the size of the impact is possible to throw stuff that far
If I have meteorites complete with the strewn field where I’m still finding pieces,And I know they’re meteorites,What do I do,Who would I contact?!I have two the size of basketballs and several other smaller ones(still finding more)How do I go about getting these things verified?!
Yay! They're back!.I bought a beautiful meteorite from their store. I'm a rockhound & fossils are my thing. This little guy I named Fear, as it looks like a T-Rex, head raised & yelling at the apocalypse sky of doom...lol.
After seeing one of the photos of the rocks I think I have one such stone. It is the size of a human fist but too heavy for it's size. I do not know how to present it.
My wife rakes the rocks from her flower beds and is building a wall. The neighbor drives by and... stops and looks at the wall. Asks her if she can grab a rock. Sure. She does. About half the size of a fist. Puts a magnet to it. It sticks. She asks her if she wants to sell it or keep it. Why? It's a meteorite..... Fastest $95 my wife ever got from her garden, half the value as we split it with our neighbor... Who hunts meteorites and we never knew it. And this one, she barely had to leave home to find.
Hey boys is that an ARGO yall are driving? If not please let me know I go rockhounding all the time here in Az. Cause I live just 75 miles west of the location yall where hunting in. And at 62 years of age I think that critter yall was using would be great on my feet
In the early 60's my friend and I were playing outside one summer day (we were children) I was in perfect position to see a huge iridescent ball of blue, green,red and yellow shooting low in the sky. My friend saw it when I yelled and pointed. It turned out to be a near miss meteor of gigantic proportions that was visible in the sky for a few seconds I figure I was about 10 years old. WOW! I found out in the next day's newspaper that it was a meteor that hit the atmosphere in a roughly North to South path that landed or broke up in Maryland. Life Magazine had 2 pictures, one a focused snap in black and white and the other a color snap not very focused but still awesome! I mean come on, We saw this event with our own eyes! How cool! Both photos were taken by people who were taking pictures of their families and quickly diverted their cameras if I remember correctly. The color photo was purchased by Life Mag for a serious amount of money Here in Connecticut there was a house in Wethersfield that was hit by a meteorite in 1957. It was hit by a meteorite again some 25+ years later. As Yogi Berra says "you can look it up". I'm 69 now so keep in mind I am working off of direct memory. If I'm off by a small bit please keep the comments uninsulting.
Welcome to the meteorite club. I am 74 and had an experience best explained above. In 1957 during summer I was in Phoenix and say a B-58 Hustler Bomber light up the Afterburners and streak across the sky, south to north. We old geezers have been around a long time so had experiences. And those days the sky was much clearer. Remember watching Telstar, America's first satellite? I watched that many times in the backyard in Chicago. Tip, retirement is far better down my way. I rent a 7 bedroom/5 bath house with 4 car garage on 23 acres for $153 a month. Had I not raised my own rent 5 months ago it would be $132. That allows me to travel all the tings I have ever wanted, 3 months a year traveling Internationally. Even with a wife do all this on just $800 to $1000 a month.
I am 69, retired and was looking to retire to Arizona but I hear it's expensive to buy land. If I could find acreage like you have that is buildable and is able to produce water (well) I would move there in a second! I can build anything with wood, stone or steel. For many years I subscribed to the magazine "Arizona Byways". $153 a month? Point me in the right direction please!! I pay way more than that in property taxes alone! Retired Veteran 1970/73.@@riskyron1416
I saw two meteorites in one week near my home and looked for the craters. Wow what are the odds?
@@jeffreyhollister1149 That's really cool! Finding them is hard. It may seem like they landed real close but could have burned up completely or landed 100's miles away.
They were very close to me just a short walk to the bar where they appeared to land. However I don't know what burned up or made it to the ground they were small meteors.
never heard of this show before, was hooked after 2 minutes, i was on edge waiting for result of the last sample, love this show, instant sub.
they used to be on discovery channel
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed our adventure. Hope you like the other ones.
I got hooked in early and watched the whole program and appreciate that it wasn't a waste of 47 minutes. The new iron is really beautiful, congrats to Arnold and Notkin!.
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this vid just popped up on autoplay and im hooked.
Glad you liked our show. The others are good too
I skipped over this show a few times, ok many few times. I am very glad that I did click on it and watch it tho! Great balance of suspenseful moments, and actually finding what they search for is really cool to see! Nice to see hard work paying off especially some of those big bolder type samples they have found. Incredible stuff for sure
Thanks! We did work hard to make these episodes. Glad you enjoyed the results.
@@FireballSteve Had never heard of the Tucson Ring. But recently moved near the area you searched in. Dad grew up in Winslow, so I expected to be seeing a show about that one, but this was way cool. Good job on all of it.
I've been looking for this show for ages, since it went off air from cable tv. Awesome to have found it again
I've never heard of this show and somehow it popped up into my feed, and to end with a new iron.. 'did well!
We are glad it is back again.
If the hole was from the first, I propose : The Nickel-Iron complex came in red hot and molten. It hit a bed of sand which insulated it by coming up to temp itself. The impact was strong and the central section was pushed out by the 'central uplift' of the impact. The ring cooled and the big end was likely down hill from the small one. That is me, a retired Sr. Scientist thinking out of the box.
i think this is the meteor craters core...it was never found and is pretty close to the area..its in the direction of its impact and they only found small bits all over the countryside
"It hit a bed of sand which"
-sand which-
sandwich
A bed sandwich. I'm no scientist but my theory is that it hit a bed sandwich, bounced off of the bed, and landed in the grass. Then little dwarves found it and carved it into the shape that it is now.
No wait, your way sounds a lot better.
I think your right.
(Sorry for being silly. My tooth hurts and I can't sleep.)
I had a piece of a meteorite once.
I love rocks and minerals.
That's me, a former Marine with a community college education and a sleep deprived mind.
Take care.
I had a meteorite fly directly over my head one night while I was calving up here in M.T. it disintegrated before it hit the ground it crackled just like the firework called meteor shower at first I thought someone was playing a trick on me it was so close I could hear the particals hit the frozen ground what a spectacle I saw many more in the distance that night.
I found what I believe to be a 32 gram meteorite in the same area a few years ago. I should get it checked out.
The hardest part will be to find a REPUTABLE place to Actually test it PROPERLY. Most labs quit testing for possible meteorites because the customer goes psycho when told the sample is not a meteorite. They even get death threats. NEXT problem is reputable labs don't agree on what is the best test. This video has them do a scanning electron microscope and an Energy Dispersive X-Ray. (I seriously scowl at the idea that ALL Meteorites Have Some Nickel. "All" and "Never" shouldn't be in the vocabulary. Thus, All the Rare ones will be tossed in the junk heap. It would be closer to correct to say they all have some Iridium in them.)
-- Other sources say a Petrographic Microscope must be used. Starts with a very thin slice of the sample examined with polarized filters. Meteorite understanding, and especially their identification, is still in its infancy.
Yeah and I found a million dollar baby in a 5&10 cent store, worth 100x more!!!
@@bigsmiler5101 One lab test I just saw was $30. And they do not do eBay meteorites. Thanks for your input.
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Great job , patience is a virtue. And a new meteorite too! Awesome ! I enjoyed your video and your quest into the desert the terrain was beautiful and native and serene . It felt so cozy . As you were walking around. Of course taking precaution s for snake and scorpions is always a must and plenty of drinking water! H2 O helps. Best wishes on your future finds and search adventures . Another video would be nice to watch. Flat tire made me laugh , driving skills practice makes perfect . hahaha. Your humor helped make it light hearted as well. Thank you for sharing and showing Tucson meteorite Famous in museum . That's awesome! I didn't know about it's use as a blacksmith horse show table it was used for sharing horse shoes . As in olden days people used what was around the desert to work on their skills who knew. Now if science around and able to identify rocks at a glance that's even better. Thanks for Historical facts as well. 😁🏜️
I live near where they are doing this. Half the year you can do this outside "100 degree heat" its our fall and winter and it is perfect usually in the 60s to 70s.
With clear skies and sun, a slight breeze. Perfect.
I live in Arizona and the summers are brutal. Fall and winter, absolutely beautiful. In the summer I turn into a sloth 😌. I have to say though I can’t take the desert full time. Dry everything, and dusty
@@BajaGirl302 well im originally from the north, wa state near the border UP THERE
at 21 i moved to save money for school since the cost of living was low and work was abundant. But, i work outside. Always have. Cold never bothered me, you can always work harder or dress up some.
I dont get the luxury of going inside. Wish i did. The heat is different. Cooling off is harder
People i work with who were born here and lived here all their lives, also despise the summers and want to move one day because of the heat. Lol
In the Antarctic the meteorites were on the surface also , easier to spot on the glacier, more difficult in the dry vallies. The NSF frowned on taking souvenirs so the little guys are still there.
As a retired scientist, I seriously scowl at the idea that ALL Meteorites Have Some Nickel. "All" and "Never" shouldn't be in the vocabulary. Thus, All the Rare ones will be tossed in the junk heap. It would be closer to correct to say they all have some Iridium in them. Other sources say a Petrographic Microscope must be used. Starts with a very thin slice of the sample examined with polarized filters. Meteorite understanding, and especially their identification, is still in its infancy.
The joys of 'TV-friendly science' where the narrative is written by non-scientist script writers and the detailed scientific analysis is stripped out. While I completely agree that words like 'proven' & 'never' shouldn't be part of a scientist's lexicon, the majority of the general public glaze over when you say _"the evidence we've collected to date strongly suggests that...."_ so your average TV producer often does some creative editing. They obviously perform more detailed analysis off-camera to differentiate a terrestrial iron from a likely meteorite, using more than the SEM & EDX to check the samples against their library of local terrestrial iron & other rocks before discounting them as meteorites. Unfortunately science often falls foul of mass media oversimplification....
@@medea27 Yes. You're right. I think I grew bitter as a scientist because of how much Management with their business degrees can hear, "The average results are..." and they go forward believing ALL results are that.
Where did you catch one of us saying that here? Was it in the context of this particular iron meteorite…this all iron meteorites have some nickel in them? Because that is true. Yes, some achondrites have no iron, but the irons do. It’s possible the comment was captured out of context or something was misspoken…or maybe even we were wrong.
@@FireballSteve It's all good... it wasn't anything said explicitly, it was more how the science was simplified for the sake of fitting a TV show.
Scientists can just find it frustrating when a TV show presents ideas in absolute terms, because it's impossible to know something with certainty in science.
So rather than saying _"all iron meteorites have nickel in them"_ we'd say _"all iron meteorites collected to date have contained nickel"..._ it's a small difference in wording, but it's acknowledging we can't know that _every_ iron that's hit Earth contained nickel because hunters like you guys haven't found them all yet! 😎
I think BigSmiler just got a bit frustrated & forgot that when you're presenting science on TV it's better for the editors/producers to simplify some concepts to make them more digestible for the average viewer.
It was an awesome show though... you & Geoff are the perfect 'odd couple' to fire people up about the science & fun of meteorites. And your various tow-able inventions were genius BTW 😎👍
1st. "We're not showing the map to anyone" next scene shows Southern Arizona
So subtle right... Is the narrator the same guy from how it's made?
Southern Arizona is a significantly large place! Humans have sprinkled their possessions and trash over a lot of the surface of the earth.
It is the Tucson Ring meteorite…most people knew we were hunting near Tucson which is in….Southern Arizona!!!
Very nice and informative
drug smugs and you left keys in rover? I was worried the whole time that we would hear the engine start as they found a fast ride out.
Well, just the fact that they're out in the midday, Summer heat, of the SW desert, proves their bubble is off center.
Drug smugglers, and human traffickers, aka, Coyotes, are smarter than that, so no danger there.
What is out and about in the Summer, is all the dangerous wildlife, they featured. Most of which, are hibernating in the Winter months. Duh....
But, that Summer heat, is what's most likely to kill you. And does so regularly, every year.
@@chachadodds5860 bro i live down here stfu.
Coyotes dont give a shit about the real canine coyotes out here or any bobcats or anything else they're from fucking mexico and the sonoran desert doesn't stop at the border
I lock my truck.
They carry the value of many rovers in their packages.
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The rock hound has no suspension must be a miserable ride !!!!
I wrote these two c/o Ariz University but never got an answer. I used to live in a small town in Iowa and one night when I was up, like 2:30 in the morning, a meteorite came down no more than eight hundred feet from my house!! Scared me to death! If they had contacted me, I would have shown them where to metal detect. I would have done it myself, but I no longer have a metal detector.
I will come do it.
The finder of the Tucson ring did not take the larger pieces because his donkeys could not haul anything larger (donkeys not horses). These guys need to do more research they are in the wrong place...they need to go east of tubac in the Mt Wrightson wilderness.
I like Jeff how he respects and protects all wildlife, Steve doesnt care and if Jeff wasnt there he would most likely just run over or stamp on the wildlife for no reason! Very sad!!!
Yeah, Steve isn’t my fav
I don’t even like messing with ant beds .
@@honeybee6858 i save everything i can, if i see a slug or snail crossing a path i will pick them up and move them to a safer place, most insects live very short lives some only a day but a Snail can actually live upto 30 years!! if i see a Bee just sat on the floor i will pick them up and put some honey on a plate with the Bee just in reach, the honey gives them a huge energy boost, ive revived at least 4 large Bee's doing this. I hate to see anything suffer!
What a fun show and congratulations to the meteorite men!
Thanks. Watch our other episodes too
Cool video!
A British person would never say “Doodlebugging”. They would always refer to it as “Dowsing”.
Americans call it dowsing, too. Never heard "doodlebugging" in my life and I've been using a pendulum successfully for 25 years.
Used them in the power company putting in power poles dowsing here too. People are strange and some say weird things.😂
I think Geoff’s source called it doddlebugging, so I think that is why…
these two are great and funny companion's.
Thanks!
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Interesting. I lived in Arizona, Chandler and Phoenix from 1995 to 2019. I remember seeing the most amazing meteor back around 1996 I think it was. I was out in the back yard in Chandler with my telescope when the Southern sky lit up. Almost daylight and I saw a huge and long lasting meteor breaking up, down towards Tucson. I have seen another one in the afternoon from Chandler, pretty bright and very visible. I have hiked often during those years from Flagstaff on down South. I completely understand the time and effort that it takes to do what you do. A great state for hiking and telescope viewing. Thanks
love the brotherly banter. WAIT A MINUTE.. you brought me here because you have a map made from a divining rod.. lol
This area wasn't even hard to find on Google Earth...
Since we didn’t think we found the spot…the place didn’t need to be guarded as closely as we would have insisted the production company keep sensitive info out.
I grew up in those hill, trees are mesquites. you can eat coiled string bean like legumes from them. One of the longest root system of any tree. I used to throw rope around the ocotillo and sell them to ranchers who used them for fences. We were in our before teens and had a group pull gun on us. Once we told our parents.. they were hunted down... Local ranchers and rangers all of sudden started to look for them.. We did not think it was that big a deal.. But strong message to leave the locals alone for sure. Later we were told that the hunt started as soon as we told story and it started like 50 miles out and any and all who got caught in circle prosecuted smallest reason .. like trespassing to drug and immigration reasons. Little late.. but Thank you Desert Rangers for keeping us all safe . Just look at how rustic that land is. We would lay back and look at satellites swing by at night. Wish i knew about meteorite back then.
As a know nothing about this, my question is how do you differentiate between a meteorite and a terrestrial iron rock?
They look for nickel in the stone with the iron to prove it came from a meteorite.
@@olyvoyl9382 thank you. I saw that a couple minutes after I asked.
Most meteorites have some component of nickel or iron, but not all - there are rarer versions called ACHONDRITES such as the Allende meteorite, easy to confuse with terrestrial basalt objects
Keep watching our episodes, lots of different type of meteorites
28 min ." lets give him some space" lol.
I live in Winslow right by meteor crater! I wonder how many meteors are in the desert???
i also enjoy watching teasing each other 😁🤗 its not boring to watch 😂🤣
Ah thanks, come on a hunt with us sometime!
Hint.....Try to anticipate the direction must meteorites come from and search on the sides/tops of those hills etc. etc., not in those valleys, and so on. Trace the way back form the locations of those pieces and figure the lines they came from. Look for impact marks as well to predict bouncing etc etc. Then I saw the diagram of the strewn field and I am ....duh. Thanks anyway.
They actually don't have a consistent direction. They have a perceived radiant point if they come from a comet, but litterally radiate all the way around that area. Regular meteorites go all which way. There used to be a bollie tracking Network for the huge fire balls, but I can't remember where I saw it on NASA's pages I think it was probably lost in their last reshuffle.
Also small heavy stones on the tops of mountains will get washed down in the rain storms. That's why panning for gold in Old streams, works.
That metal detector sounds like that ‘Brass Monkey’ song! 😂😂😂
I truly wish these guys were planetary geologists. Everything here is basically conjecture from the opinion of lay people simplifying down a very complex field of study that require lots of complex analyses that is done exclusively in laboratories throughout the world-not a field trip arranged by fortune seekers.
I wish that this show was still on cable. I wonder why it was taken off?
We made 23 episodes over 3 seasons then it got too expensive to make more episodes. But it is a really good collective.
The way i watch geoff and steve reaction when they got a meteorwrong i felt sad but when they got 1 piece of iron meteorite i feel happy for them
OBTW - The Tucson Meteorite will NOT hang on a magnet. The reason it was used as an anvil in the President was like a natural stainless steel and would not flake when struck as they hammered the hot iron into shape. Also, the area has changed over the thirty years since I was out there for access. Hint: Rosemont Mine may upset the area for looking at the impact result on surrounding rocks and ejecta field from strike.
Yikes! This is really important.
You know how easy it was to find these "super secret spots". Thank you.
Watching this thinking about the same thing.... “hey wait a sec, dems my mountains!”
Uhhh, you guys realise that this was a TV show filmed over a decade ago? That the film crew was creating drama by overselling the idea of filming at a 'super secret site'?? That Steve & Geoff were in the business of meteorite hunting for over a decade _before_ the show filmed, so there's no way they'd be giving away the location of any profitable 'super secret site' on national TV, especially if it was on a property owner's land who is named in the show?! LOL
@@medea27 you're beyond genius aren't you? And have no sense of humor. Question, is he your "president"? The current thing that occupies the "white house" for the time being.
Hey guys. I was fishing on the Verde River in Arizona in 1978. A meteorite impacted on the sand bank on the river roughly 30 yards away. Went and got two small pieces of it. Highly magnetic. But if you like I can try to steer you to the location. I now live in Costa Rica last few years. So no interest. Also have places you can find gold as well as platinum nuggets. For years I had thought those were spent 22 rimfire bullets, but seemed too hard. And eventually found they were platinum.
Ever get down to Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Peru, maybe I can put you on to other places. Mainly gold and silver. But maybe meteorites which the Inca and others prior revered.
I am an old timer with metal detectors. Old Compass, Tesoro, darn forgot the other brand I owned. How about tipping me off on a good current detector. Hopefully something around the $600 range, maybe another around $1500. Don't want to spend too much until I see results.
contact. All yours and free, I will not be returning to the US again, but want to put this knowledge to good use. But not to the entire public.
BTW, my great uncle was two term Arizona Governor. One term US Senator losing to Barry Goldwater in 1952, then Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice. And Barry was a friend and neighbor of mine. I first met him when I was in Vietnam on MARS Radio. Also a friend of John McCain. I was Chief Metrologist at a rocket plant in Mesa. He was first running for Congressman. The company made the rocket for his ejection seat that launched him into North Vietnam. So I gave him the tour. But told him when that happened I had no part. I was a Sergeant in Vietnam myself repairing microwave, tropo and radar. Both Barry and John were Life Members in the NRA. I was at the time a Patron Member, later Benefactor.
Also some mines in California related to the San Fernando Mission. That one is silver. Get a message to me or tell me how to contact. All the info is free. Just want someone to benefit from it.. No idea the size of the meteorite, but most must have buried. The pieces I fount likely broke away at impact. But were I to guess likely basketball size. When it came in it was hot and burning and seemed like it nearly hit the end of my rod. roughly a north to south trajectory.
It's a donut shape, maybe because it might have exploded from the inside out in an electrical explosion. The differential charge of the object and Earth can cause meteors to electrically explode before they hit Earth's surface. This has been observed in may recent videos of meteors coming in from above. Just before hitting land they explode. Some of the fragments can still fall in chunks apparently because pieces like these are found on the ground, and without leaving an impact crater. The "Thunderbolts Project" channel has many videos on this subject. Researcher have been experimenting with electrical discharges to recreate feature found on this planet as well as features found elsewhere in the solar system. When meteors explode they can even leave a crater without even impacting the ground. This can be caused by the shock wave that the explosion creates. Researcher Andrew Hall has some of the best videos on this subject that I have seen so far. His theories are fascinating.
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That track crawler has got to be the most useless, slowest, expensive, oversized and heavy p.o.s. to get around, I've ever seen. While they tear up the land everywhere they go.
Looks bumpy
It was all you said. It was a cool idea that didn’t pan out so well…but they kept the footage in because it was funny. I don’t always break everything…in spite of what Geoff says in other episodes
I just started watching and I'm wondering if you use the pendulum thing it might help
Right…we should have…
From 10 Sept 2009, seems like a re-run from way back, but probably not available from anywhere else.
Yes, these are reruns
I’m watching for both the meteorites and for Geoff’s accent! 🇬🇧🇺🇸😆😎
Good video
First miner to ever order a veggie burger. Super cute. I love when the effiminate throw caution to the wind.
It’s not effeminate 🙄
It's a little. Men who are meat eaters are more masculine. To me anyways. But, maybe he's allergic to red meat?
Where have you two been?
Great to see you two again ‼️
Thanks! It’s good to be back.
Seems odd a perfect circle, and inner circle for a meteorite which a meteorite would not drop strait from overhead. Maybe its not a meteorite but a collapsed volcano.
Did they go hunting for meteorites in Southern Arizona in the summertime? Just so they can stay how hot it is? And now a third question. Just how many times did they say how hot it was?
Having lived in the actual area they searched, more than 35 years, I can honestly say that with that amount of cloud cover in that mountain range 108 is quite exaggerated. Not sweating one drop... Walking miles on end, in 108... are they extraterrestrial?
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Can a red-hot meteorite cause a fire, turning things to charcoal?
Or was that area covered with 500 feet of prehistoric marsupial soup at the time? 😶
I love comments where we can all share are thoughts this is where the truth comes from love u guys gods be with us all
The judge in Mammoth AZ has 100 of them he got right in the valley
What meteors or Mex. Criminals?
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Well done 👍 brother 👍💪 watching from Nagaland
You are absolutely gorgeous as well as being Naga
Use of a doodlebug will lead you to the Santa Rita Faeries.
a , doodlebug , is the name for a v1 rocket used by the germans in ww2 , of course the yanks have to make out they invented the name ..
Am wondering with all your casting about why you are not using rough grid tape? Using a scatter diagram approach leaves a lot of unexplored space inbetween youtr random tracks.
Yes, we only had a few days to hunt and film when we would need a thousand days to cover it all appropriately. We were more sampling, and if we found something from the Ring we would have gone back and the episode would have ended differently.
Not sure where near Tucson these guys are but one of them said this Tucson Ring is the most famous meteorite in the world. I live in Tucson and until this video, I never heard if it. Good luck guys. Drink lots of water!
They weren't in Tucson, they were much farther south.
@@buckroger6456 Yeah, I was thinking more like Arivaca or Tubac (which was mentioned) area. At least they did find a pretty nice little piece of a meteorite after all that work.
@@jeffrobarge6378 my guess is from what the story says the Tucson meteorite wasn't found in Tucson but was later brought there. I ride up in most of the mountains in Tucson so right from the start I could tell they weren't in our area but a little farther south.
Right...but they were further South, in the Santa Ritas.
Drink lots of water, yes, but they shouldn't have been out there hunting meteorites, in the midday, Summer heat, to begin with. November/December, would've been smarter; cooler daytime temps, fewer deadly wildlife, since many of them hibernate in Winter.
The one dangerous species these guys weren't likely to cross paths with, is "drug smugglers," or "Coyotes," since they're at least smart enough not to be trekking across the SW desert, during this time of day, in the Summer.
And the dark, wool felt hat! Oy! Get a Panama, for God's sake!
i'm hoping to see them find a big kilo gold nugget and hear them say, "damnit, that's not iron."
Instead of this thing you have to swing around, couldn't somebody develop detector shoes which could find treasure?
They should look between the two high finds sites, maybe those are mid air burst dispersal forward of, and behind the impact zone.
It's a hard way to earn a living but it is very lucrative.
Maybe a proton magnetometer? I had one years ago. Unfortunately it mostly found buried automobiles and scrap metal, once some coffins. Those all has silver hardware. I offered to repair and rebury them, but swap the silver for brass. Even replace the grave markers where possible. That was a no deal. A shame as it wasn't long all was destroyed by flooding. I think 2 years after.
Bumpiest road? He's obviously never been to alaska.
@ 14:53 did they found a crime scene?
Not likely....for decades,, this area, was regularly used by the military, for training ops. Tucson, is just North, and home to, Davis-Monthan Airforce Base.
QUESTION: Is there any evidence that meteorite falls are of homogenous material. I feel it is very likely that one meteorite may contain several types of metal makeup, especially when it disentigrates on entering the earth's atmosphere
Then it would be a different type of meteorite
In the early 1970's we were southbound on CA. State Hwy 111 at about 10:39 pm during the summer. My friend and I were about 3-5 miles south of the State Park in Salton Sea. We suddenly saw what appeared to be a huge ball of fire traveling south to north over the Salton Sea. It looked like an old time movie prop as it had flaming debris falling straight down. I was wondering why it wasn't streaming out behind the object. As low as it looked I would chance to say it landed in western Arizona or the bombing range east of Indio California and south of the I-10. This has to have been about 1971-72.
Exploding stars make iron meteors :)
It is definitely cool that several of the finds really do seem to jump out at you visually compared with what appears to be the vast majority of rock and mineral pieces that make up that terrain. I tried a little work with mineral ... 'rock hounding' I think it was called. A small kit of various mineral samples, book about characteristics like color and hardness and whatnot. But the limitations on my travel, and the fact that my area of Baltimore County, MD was so much clay and sediment... it didn't hold my interest long. My limited experience advice? Get your kids a decent rock tumbler starter kit along with the rock hammer and mineral testing solutions, so even the boring pieces can be cleaned up. Even simple quartz, granite, and metamorphic samples can clean up to be pieces with their own beauty, or enough to use for art or jewelry and such.
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Just goes show to that human pollution is anywhere and everywhere. Don't pollute and DO A DAB
Is there a part 2? The end is kinda cliffhanger.
Dowsing worked on Ft. Peck when I was there in the 80's.
What about using a protonmagnometer on a model airplane to cover more ground easier
You should have a magnet on the bottom of your atv so it will pickup when you go spot to spot
Making me home sick ,grew up on the San Pedro River valley .go to Tucson over Redington pass were you came up or San Manuel, Oricele Catalina into Tucson .got to check out the 🔥 agite copper canon out side mamuth
You grew up in the San Pedro Valley but never learned to spell the names of its towns? Oracle. Catalina. Mammoth.
@@landtuna8061 after 60 your eyes started going bad,the VA has never got by glass right,my fingers to big for keys , and there on the biggest mode ,but l try thanks
I've taken that trail from I-10 to Mammoth the trail is still there from the old ghost town through Catalina. It's easy as pie nowadays it's a half a days trek and maybe a case or 2 of beer!
These guys are hilarious together
Awww, thanks!
I found a couple pieces I live in Tucson have to get them checked out
The shell base is likely from a 37mm flare gun with the aircraft metal there is likely a old aircraft crash site nearby
has anyone thought about these meteor pieces coming from meteor crater...they never found its iron core just pieces of it all over and this is only a couple hundred miles away...which by the size of the impact is possible to throw stuff that far
Look on east side of Tucson mountain
If I have meteorites complete with the strewn field where I’m still finding pieces,And I know they’re meteorites,What do I do,Who would I contact?!I have two the size of basketballs and several other smaller ones(still finding more)How do I go about getting these things verified?!
Your states University, Geology dept.
35:00 or there abouts you see Elephant Head in the background. Ye Ive lived there all my life and Im old.
Fun Fact Meteorite found is bought around from 40 per gram to 1k per gram USD
Lovely thanks
I didn't know there was a sequel to "Brokeback Mountain".
110° and double layers of clothing....really
Yay! They're back!.I bought a beautiful meteorite from their store. I'm a rockhound & fossils are my thing. This little guy I named Fear, as it looks like a T-Rex, head raised & yelling at the apocalypse sky of doom...lol.
Glad you like our show!!
My meteorites look exactly like the ones they are finding here
I recon meteorites are how humanity comes about?
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After seeing one of the photos of the rocks I think I have one such stone. It is the size of a human fist but too heavy for it's size. I do not know how to present it.
You know its not always 110 here. We get 4 months of winter with our 8 months of summer. Keep in mind we are freezin our asses off at 50.
My wife rakes the rocks from her flower beds and is building a wall. The neighbor drives by and... stops and looks at the wall. Asks her if she can grab a rock. Sure. She does. About half the size of a fist. Puts a magnet to it. It sticks. She asks her if she wants to sell it or keep it. Why? It's a meteorite..... Fastest $95 my wife ever got from her garden, half the value as we split it with our neighbor... Who hunts meteorites and we never knew it. And this one, she barely had to leave home to find.
Hey boys is that an ARGO yall are driving? If not please let me know I go rockhounding all the time here in Az. Cause I live just 75 miles west of the location yall where hunting in. And at 62 years of age I think that critter yall was using would be great on my feet
This is sooooo.... 90's.... How much money we'll make, how much money....
It was 2009
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QUESTION: He said that the Tucson meteor costs more than a big stack of money. What is the value of that stack of money, in U.S. currency? 🤔
to be precisely... many dollars
$100 a gram for a small piece, probably $20/g if it was big
Maybe we should bring in, the backhoe !
Here in my place all the pieces we find are meteorwrongs but im hopeful that one day i will find the RITE one.