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That is soooooo insane! I saw your clip from Relics Radio on 5280 Adventures and I had to come check out this video! Congratulations, what a find of a lifetime!!
Thank you for both tuning into the Radio podcast as well as coming over to the channel to watch the video! I sincerely appreciate it and I have a couple other really good videos on meteorites if you're interested on my channel. Thanks again!
Thank you, yes would have looked much better if it didn't punch through the soil as deep as it did. Three of the biggest pieces that were found at this event were all deep like mine in the soil but about 16 or 17 of the other pieces that were found were found on top of the flat desert floor and looked amazing with the fresh eggshell like fusion crust. That is one of the reasons why I like this hobby so much is I do fresh falls and I always get to see nice fusion crusts. Thank you for the view and comment! I truly hope you get to find one like this someday. Watch this video too. ua-cam.com/video/_EWs_EFNDyY/v-deo.htmlsi=tXP_xwtCQi7so0iS
Huge Congrats to you too. Thank you for the view and comment! Can you look at my email below and email me to share your coords? (Unless you already have them to Pat Branch). We're trying to keep a master map for not only scientific documentation (academia and MetBul) but for provenance as well. Thanks again! Mark 🤠
I was there, I was on a life journey and turned oracle cards. Within a second of me turning the last card we heard a boom. It was this meteor, I was being called the meteorite shaman by some of the locals.
Wow Mark! That is beyond epic dude! Congratulations man! Your passion for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary ground beneath our feet is about as inspirational as it can get. Cheers to you buddy! 🍻
Thank you Jesse for your view and kindest comment!! I know I like watching others adventures so that is what inspires me to make these videos. I could care less about the attaboys or spotlight, etc. Like I said in this video, I like to share these incredible moments with buddies and my UA-cam community! I'm glad to hear you say it's inspirational! 🤠
Congrats Mark must have been a highlight monment!! Can you help me understand how you obtain the doplar radar information and how you manipulate it? Thanks, Tim
Hi Tim, the data set is publicly shared for doplar radar as is for example lidar data from landsat 8 and sentinal 2 satellites. It's just having the skills and or software to know how to view it and manipulate it. There are only 3 people that I personally know of with the skill set to create a solution and generate a strewnfield map. All 3 are scientists and it's kind of the buddy system to get timely access to these maps. In some cases, for example our most recent fall in the State of Georgia earlier this week, data was not allowed to be shared due to the dataset being used was privately owned and as an agreement the persons working up a solution were asked not to share it with the public until locals had time to find these on their own. A few days later it was shared publicly throughout the scientific and hobby communities. There are videos all over UA-cam that can show you how to work with weather data but it's a very complex and secretive science knowing how to find falling rocks! Wish I had more info for you but we can always use another person who can do this if your motivated enough! Thank you for the view and question!
Your a little of on your time table , earth is mor or les 4.54 billion years old , so your rock is about the same age, excellent find , i got near me some salt flats called Laguna Salada, its south of the imperial valley. Nice episode and congratulations on a find of a lifetime .
Thank you, yes I was misinformed for some reason when I made that statement. Really spurred lots of comments like this. I apologize for the inaccurate info. I had never been to the Salt flats before until this adventure but I had been to huge dry lake beds before looking for meteorites. I mostly only chase, fresh, witnessed falls. But on these giant Flat Lake beds you can find old falls as well. Thanks for the view and comment!
Very cool; thanks for posting. I have a 14.6 lb one. Do you know if an XRF would give me any results? There's a guy in Carson City said he charges $35 to XRF anything.
Thank you for the view and comment! Yes an XRF is the instrument of choice for determining or confirming a Meteorite. Is yours a heavy solid iron? If so, there are several terrestrial stones that are heavy like iron meteorites and magnets are attracted to them. Beat bet is that XRF test.
@@BrassMedic I have no doubt it's a meteorite. It is very heavy and it's been handled so much that the areas around the thumbprint markings look silver (nickel). It doesn't look anything like the natural stones at Iron Mountain, across the highway from the Misfits strewn field.
Happy you know this!! I found what I believe to be a desert iron meteorite and I’m trying to get answers from the U of U just waiting for their meteorite specialist to return from Antarctica . I very thoroughly wash every one of my findings and if I did find a meteor, I definitely damaged it by soaking and scrubbing off the outside that would have been the crust if it turns out to be one. No matter what I find out though , I’m very happy with “my meteor” / space looking rock specimen lol. Thank you for this information as I will be driving to Carson city asap to find this guy and get mine ttested. I have ants in my pants doing a boogie dance. I just want to know. Again though, CONGRATULATIONS to you lucky one!! It’s a beautiful heart with so many stories to tell. You are a very lucky man. 💞🍀🍀🍀🍀✨🍀💫🍀☄️🍀🍀🍀
Congrats on your amazing find! It is mind blowing to think about all the millennia that thing has been orbiting are star and the distance it must have covered! Did you find out what it's composed of nickel iron or stony? Wow thanks for sharing your find!
what a cool adventure and an amazing find! your comment about the research aspect too is so so interesting and involved. whether its gold camps or meteor showers, you really know how to do the research to find it! very impressive
Thank you Thomas for the view and taking the time to make such a nice comment! Yes, anyone who has ever been on an adventure with me knows that I am huge on research and reading the terrain to figure out where to look for long lost relics. The techniques used to find meteorites are a good glimpse into the world of astrophysics, meteorology and geology. I love everything about it! 🤠
I describe in detail where I was in the video. I have my exact coordinates to representatives at NASA as well as shared them with the community at Strewnify. Thank you for the view and question.
I tried to do the same the day I got there but it was over 100 degrees super windy and the glare off of the white sand made the drone un-useable for that. Had to just hike out to the flats and use your eyes while keeping dark sunglasses on and a full face and arm coverings to prevent sunburn from white glare of sand. Was a brutal hunt and hike. Thanks for the view and comment!
Can you help me to identify my suspected meteorite i pound somewhere here in the Philippine. Can i send to you video & pictures sir. Gid bless more 😇🙏❤️🤙
My comment about how fast it was going was quite misleading. The near earth object observation program caught this coming at us a couple days before it hit earth. It was moving at us at 33k mph but when it hits the atmosphere the object encounters friction and heating and breaks up into many pieces and slows all the way down to terminal velocity (120 mph). At that point each piece simply falls to earth (no different than being dropped out of high altitude hot air balloon). Still a 484 gram stone falling at 120 mph carry a lot of energy. In the equation E = mc2 speed is everything as it's squared. It's certainly enough to punch a small hole into the desert playa. On this fall only 16 total pieces were found and 3 of largest pieces, including mine were in holes, the rest were on top. Thanks for the view and comment. 🤠
@@WestCoastGoldProspecting They are very collectible by hobbiests, space enthusiasts and of course the scientific and academic communities. They are quite rare as well. Values vary widely due to whether or not they were a fresh, witnessed fall or an old historic event. Also geography plays a part in value. But nothing has more of an impact that the type it is. There are many different types and parent bodies. But generally speaking, any fresh witnessed fall is valuable.
It's hard to say on each fall there are many variables. It depends on what the classification is and of course the weight and then the aesthetics. They are very valuable to collectors, science, academia and museums. Generally speaking all fresh witnessed falls in USA are a minimum of $50/gram some less some much more. Supply and demand matters too. In this particular fall event, only 16 pieces were ever found, most ended up in the great salt lake and are now underwater. Thanks for checking out the video!
Great questions. Firstly, thank you for your view and comment/question. We know where to look because we use doplar radar data which is routinely used to look at moisture and precipitation for weather forecast. This radar system can also see things in the sky such as flocks of birds, airplanes and even swarms of bees. We use multiple eyewitness accounts from a website where witnesses can report a fireball sighting. This gives us a projected trajectory. Then we move through slices of time in software that can see the doplar radar data set to see the fragments of the meteor falling to earth. We can then create a map showing where they are most likely going to land. We start our search there. As far as how do you know its not fake? First of all, you can't believe anything you see in video because it's very easy to deceive using video production techniques. But in this case, until you actually go out and experience digging a Meteorite out of the soil, seeing what something looks like when it's freshly dug and knowing what a fresh meteorite looks like, you will never be convinced that seeing footage like this is real. But for those of us who have dug a fresh meteorite, handle, collect, buy, sell or trade them, there is absolutely no question its real. It's a fair question coming from someone who has never experienced this. Thanks again for your view!
@@krazykuz13cmc A bullet from a 30.06 rifle , much smaller and slower would go deeper in soft earth than that . Go back to your childish posts little one .
I would have figured something that heavy and fast would have hit the sand a lot harder. Looks like it was only going a couple hundred miles and hour upon impact.
I was thinking the same thing! Def surprised when he mentioned he was looking for rocks on the surface. Considering footprints and tire tracks were easily visible you’d think an object with that kind is mass/velocity would penetrate the substrate deeper.
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Is this a meteorite I found it at the salt flats of Sal lake city near were I live
That is soooooo insane! I saw your clip from Relics Radio on 5280 Adventures and I had to come check out this video! Congratulations, what a find of a lifetime!!
Thank you for both tuning into the Radio podcast as well as coming over to the channel to watch the video! I sincerely appreciate it and I have a couple other really good videos on meteorites if you're interested on my channel. Thanks again!
As a meteorite owner
I can say that
*ur find is incredible*
Thank you for the view and comment!
That is a killer piece!! Awesome fusion crust!!
Thank you, yes would have looked much better if it didn't punch through the soil as deep as it did. Three of the biggest pieces that were found at this event were all deep like mine in the soil but about 16 or 17 of the other pieces that were found were found on top of the flat desert floor and looked amazing with the fresh eggshell like fusion crust. That is one of the reasons why I like this hobby so much is I do fresh falls and I always get to see nice fusion crusts. Thank you for the view and comment! I truly hope you get to find one like this someday. Watch this video too.
ua-cam.com/video/_EWs_EFNDyY/v-deo.htmlsi=tXP_xwtCQi7so0iS
Great video Mark! Epic find and a slick production to show the journey and your find. 👍🏻👍🏻
Congrats on a nice find.... I was out there only Wed Aug 17th and found 2. You found a nice size, congrats...
Huge Congrats to you too. Thank you for the view and comment! Can you look at my email below and email me to share your coords? (Unless you already have them to Pat Branch). We're trying to keep a master map for not only scientific documentation (academia and MetBul) but for provenance as well. Thanks again! Mark 🤠
I was there, I was on a life journey and turned oracle cards. Within a second of me turning the last card we heard a boom. It was this meteor, I was being called the meteorite shaman by some of the locals.
Wow Mark! That is beyond epic dude! Congratulations man! Your passion for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary ground beneath our feet is about as inspirational as it can get. Cheers to you buddy! 🍻
Thank you Jesse for your view and kindest comment!! I know I like watching others adventures so that is what inspires me to make these videos. I could care less about the attaboys or spotlight, etc. Like I said in this video, I like to share these incredible moments with buddies and my UA-cam community! I'm glad to hear you say it's inspirational! 🤠
That is SO cool!
Congratulations and thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for the view and comment, really was one of those moments in life that you will never forget!
Congrats Mark must have been a highlight monment!! Can you help me understand how you obtain the doplar radar information and how you manipulate it? Thanks, Tim
Hi Tim, the data set is publicly shared for doplar radar as is for example lidar data from landsat 8 and sentinal 2 satellites. It's just having the skills and or software to know how to view it and manipulate it. There are only 3 people that I personally know of with the skill set to create a solution and generate a strewnfield map. All 3 are scientists and it's kind of the buddy system to get timely access to these maps. In some cases, for example our most recent fall in the State of Georgia earlier this week, data was not allowed to be shared due to the dataset being used was privately owned and as an agreement the persons working up a solution were asked not to share it with the public until locals had time to find these on their own. A few days later it was shared publicly throughout the scientific and hobby communities. There are videos all over UA-cam that can show you how to work with weather data but it's a very complex and secretive science knowing how to find falling rocks! Wish I had more info for you but we can always use another person who can do this if your motivated enough! Thank you for the view and question!
That is cool as hell you found that! I thought we got Bombed or somethin when the sound went off! Congratulations on your find, that’s truly amazing!
Thank you! I bet, not anything you would ever expect to hear.
Wow, congrats! Epic find of a lifetime for sure!
Thank you 🙏 yes very fortunate and I have a saying that's its 99% luck and 99% skill 😜 Thank you for the view and kindest comment! 🤠 Mark
Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Amazing find!
Fantastic find, congratulations.
That's really cool. Tim was really fired up when you sent him pics. Me too!
I bet, especially since he was the first person to tell me about it! Thanks! 🤠
what an amazing find... congratulations. thanks for sharing.
Hi Jared, Thank you for the view and taking the time to leave an awesome comment. Really glad you liked the video!! Cheers, Mark
Your a little of on your time table , earth is mor or les 4.54 billion years old , so your rock is about the same age, excellent find , i got near me some salt flats called Laguna Salada, its south of the imperial valley. Nice episode and congratulations on a find of a lifetime .
Thank you, yes I was misinformed for some reason when I made that statement. Really spurred lots of comments like this. I apologize for the inaccurate info. I had never been to the Salt flats before until this adventure but I had been to huge dry lake beds before looking for meteorites. I mostly only chase, fresh, witnessed falls. But on these giant Flat Lake beds you can find old falls as well. Thanks for the view and comment!
Very cool; thanks for posting. I have a 14.6 lb one. Do you know if an XRF would give me any results? There's a guy in Carson City said he charges $35 to XRF anything.
Thank you for the view and comment! Yes an XRF is the instrument of choice for determining or confirming a Meteorite. Is yours a heavy solid iron? If so, there are several terrestrial stones that are heavy like iron meteorites and magnets are attracted to them. Beat bet is that XRF test.
@@BrassMedic I have no doubt it's a meteorite. It is very heavy and it's been handled so much that the areas around the thumbprint markings look silver (nickel). It doesn't look anything like the natural stones at Iron Mountain, across the highway from the Misfits strewn field.
Happy you know this!! I found what I believe to be a desert iron meteorite and I’m trying to get answers from the U of U just waiting for their meteorite specialist to return from Antarctica . I very thoroughly wash every one of my findings and if I did find a meteor, I definitely damaged it by soaking and scrubbing off the outside that would have been the crust if it turns out to be one. No matter what I find out though , I’m very happy with “my meteor” / space looking rock specimen lol. Thank you for this information as I will be driving to Carson city asap to find this guy and get mine ttested. I have ants in my pants doing a boogie dance. I just want to know. Again though, CONGRATULATIONS to you lucky one!! It’s a beautiful heart with so many stories to tell. You are a very lucky man. 💞🍀🍀🍀🍀✨🍀💫🍀☄️🍀🍀🍀
Cowboy geologist did you make it out to Carson to have yours tested yet?
Freaking exhilarating dude! Awesome find
AMAZING and CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU ARE SOOOOO LUCKY I AM VERY HAPPY FOR YOU !! SOOOOOO SURREAL!! 💞🤗🤗🍀🍀🍀
Thank you so much for the very kind words and for watching!
Congrats on your amazing find! It is mind blowing to think about all the millennia that thing has been orbiting are star and the distance it must have covered! Did you find out what it's composed of nickel iron or stony? Wow thanks for sharing your find!
Thank you, still waiting for the official classification but it's looking like it's going to be an H5 Ordinary Chondrite from the parent body Aten.
what a cool adventure and an amazing find! your comment about the research aspect too is so so interesting and involved. whether its gold camps or meteor showers, you really know how to do the research to find it! very impressive
Thank you Thomas for the view and taking the time to make such a nice comment! Yes, anyone who has ever been on an adventure with me knows that I am huge on research and reading the terrain to figure out where to look for long lost relics. The techniques used to find meteorites are a good glimpse into the world of astrophysics, meteorology and geology. I love everything about it! 🤠
Thats cool your bother told you and actually found it. Sick.
Fantastic find. Your metal detector should have sounded off on that.
Absolutely would have!
So cool ❤ love it
Thanks again I really appreciate your kind words
where was it? i mean the place where you found it
I describe in detail where I was in the video. I have my exact coordinates to representatives at NASA as well as shared them with the community at Strewnify. Thank you for the view and question.
Very cool find
Wt is the price of this meteorite?
That there is a dreamy find my bro
Thank you, something I will never forget for sure. Still seems like just yesterday when I found it. I appreciate the view and comment!
I think that tops any buckle or pepper box, i'm hooked
We'll have to go one on of these adventures!
What is it with, monetarily?
Is it worth anything in monetary value ?
So Cool !!!!!!!
I remember when it crashed my cousin got his drone and was trying to find it 😂
I tried to do the same the day I got there but it was over 100 degrees super windy and the glare off of the white sand made the drone un-useable for that. Had to just hike out to the flats and use your eyes while keeping dark sunglasses on and a full face and arm coverings to prevent sunburn from white glare of sand. Was a brutal hunt and hike. Thanks for the view and comment!
Can you help me to identify my suspected meteorite i pound somewhere here in the Philippine. Can i send to you video & pictures sir. Gid bless more 😇🙏❤️🤙
Yes, you can email me at: treasureboxguy@gmail.com
How did u no it was heading there at that spot
Awesome!!!!
I’m surprised how shallow it was. Considering the weight and speed it was going 👍
My comment about how fast it was going was quite misleading. The near earth object observation program caught this coming at us a couple days before it hit earth. It was moving at us at 33k mph but when it hits the atmosphere the object encounters friction and heating and breaks up into many pieces and slows all the way down to terminal velocity (120 mph). At that point each piece simply falls to earth (no different than being dropped out of high altitude hot air balloon). Still a 484 gram stone falling at 120 mph carry a lot of energy. In the equation E = mc2 speed is everything as it's squared. It's certainly enough to punch a small hole into the desert playa. On this fall only 16 total pieces were found and 3 of largest pieces, including mine were in holes, the rest were on top. Thanks for the view and comment. 🤠
@@BrassMedic , that seems about right. I have always wanted to find a meteor. Great find. I heard those can be quite expensive, is that true ?
@@WestCoastGoldProspecting They are very collectible by hobbiests, space enthusiasts and of course the scientific and academic communities. They are quite rare as well. Values vary widely due to whether or not they were a fresh, witnessed fall or an old historic event. Also geography plays a part in value. But nothing has more of an impact that the type it is. There are many different types and parent bodies. But generally speaking, any fresh witnessed fall is valuable.
19 times faster than a bullet. I know right. Makes no sense at all.
@@BrassMedic thanks for the explanation, very informative! cool find!
What's something like that worth?
It's hard to say on each fall there are many variables. It depends on what the classification is and of course the weight and then the aesthetics. They are very valuable to collectors, science, academia and museums. Generally speaking all fresh witnessed falls in USA are a minimum of $50/gram some less some much more. Supply and demand matters too. In this particular fall event, only 16 pieces were ever found, most ended up in the great salt lake and are now underwater. Thanks for checking out the video!
Aren't they worth more if you don't touch them with your bare hands? As the oils from your skin promote premature rusting?
Price tag 4.5 Billion dollars
How did you know we're to look?? How do we know this isn't fake?
Great questions. Firstly, thank you for your view and comment/question. We know where to look because we use doplar radar data which is routinely used to look at moisture and precipitation for weather forecast. This radar system can also see things in the sky such as flocks of birds, airplanes and even swarms of bees. We use multiple eyewitness accounts from a website where witnesses can report a fireball sighting. This gives us a projected trajectory. Then we move through slices of time in software that can see the doplar radar data set to see the fragments of the meteor falling to earth. We can then create a map showing where they are most likely going to land. We start our search there. As far as how do you know its not fake? First of all, you can't believe anything you see in video because it's very easy to deceive using video production techniques. But in this case, until you actually go out and experience digging a Meteorite out of the soil, seeing what something looks like when it's freshly dug and knowing what a fresh meteorite looks like, you will never be convinced that seeing footage like this is real. But for those of us who have dug a fresh meteorite, handle, collect, buy, sell or trade them, there is absolutely no question its real. It's a fair question coming from someone who has never experienced this. Thanks again for your view!
Where's the giant crater ? 33000 mph and 8" of penetration in soft earth ? Explain please .
It's a PIECE of it stupid. The meteor exploded in the sky.
@@krazykuz13cmc A bullet from a 30.06 rifle , much smaller and slower would go deeper in soft earth than that .
Go back to your childish posts little one .
This is so sad you really made this video and uploaded it 😭
Those scientists better not take it. Finders keepers buster!
I would have figured something that heavy and fast would have hit the sand a lot harder. Looks like it was only going a couple hundred miles and hour upon impact.
I was thinking the same thing! Def surprised when he mentioned he was looking for rocks on the surface. Considering footprints and tire tracks were easily visible you’d think an object with that kind is mass/velocity would penetrate the substrate deeper.
@@DetroitShadows Yeah. Something is up with this story I'm thinking. What would slow it down so much? No blast debris either.
I'm sure that meteor is worth millions.
Co-ordinates?
Long. And lat.
I tho radiation be on anything fall form space......idk...good job..
I found a bigger stone than yours for sale
This is badass