Our good friends Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold are starring in another TV Show, this time for The Science Channel. For more information please read the press release below and see their METEORITE MEN website. (more…)
In late October you may have noticed that we put up a notice on our meteorites-for-sale.com site that we would be out of town for a week. We had not spent more that a day here or there hunting meteorites for a while so we took off for a whole week. Jim wrote an article which appeared this last November in our online Meteorite-Times Magazine and you can read about our meteorite hunting in Franconia. We hope you enjoy our meteorite hunting adventure. Paul and Jim
Meteorites have some features in their makeup that allow the hunter to use simple and fancy tools in the search. Nearly all meteorites have some nickel-iron in them. So magnets and metal detectors are very useful in helping to find them.
But, before talking about the high and low tech tools some attention should be given to the most important tools of all. A well informed mind and well trained pair of eyes. (more…)
One of the first questions asked of a meteorite hunter is “where do you go to hunt them?” The simple answer is they fall everywhere randomly so you could possibly find them anywhere. But, in reality there are many factors that make hunting meteories in certain places better and other places impossible. (more…)
