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Researchers in Antarctica have recovered a rare large meteorite on the ice. Weighing in at 7.6 kilograms, it is one of the largest space rocks ever discovered on the continent. Antarctica’s dry ...
Scott: So I would recommend Antarctica. That's where I ended up going for, for my meteorite hunting, part of the ANSMET team, Antarctic search for meteorites. There's a, a number of properties in ...
Fries and others in his field often work with independent collectors like Stream and Vargas to do the hunting for them. “There’s kind of a symbiosis that’s developed between meteorite ...
The meteorite hunter admits money is some motivation, but it pales next to the knowledge that can be gained and shared, not to mention the thrill of the hunt itself. “The hunting is always ...
and Kerchner and a couple of meteorite-hunting friends visited Jacksonville shortly after to see what they could find. They had no luck at the time, but Kerchner hasn’t given up, even though he ...
and once the approximate coordinates are distributed there will surely be several meteorite hunting expeditions. Any remnants of the meteor will be dark gray or black in color, and likely smooth ...
A cosmic find lit up the search of a meteorite-hunting citizen science project. Volunteers searching north of Rouen, France near the northern coast spotted a meteorite from fireball event 2023 CX1.
A man in Australia stumbled upon a large, mysterious rock while hunting for gold near Maryborough in 2015. The rock, which he ...
Photo: Ben McCanna / Portland Press Herald (AP) In need of some extra cash? Well then, dust off your meteorite hunting boots and get yourself to rural Maine. A geology museum in the Pine Tree ...