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Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters Dorothy S. Norton, O. Richard Norton
Publisher: Mountain Pr

Saturday, 13 April 2013 at 08:39. Meteorite hunting is such a popular pastime that it even has its own reality show. Pictured from left to right: Peter Willis, Amanda Stockton, Josh Schoolcraft, Fernanda Mora, Morgan Cable, J.P. Friday's blast and ensuing Scientists at the Urals Federal University were the first to announce a significant find – 53 small, stony, black objects around Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, which tests confirmed were small meteorites. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech To derive the best educated guess as to where meteorites could be found, Kirby worked with Mark Fries, also of the Planetary Science Institute, and chief scientist of Galactic Analytics, LLC, San Diego, to plan their expedition. But finding those rocks from space is a tough chore, because they look a lot like the rocks here on Earth. A little more than week ago a 7000 ton, 50-foot (15-meter) wide meteoroid made an unexpected visit over Russia to become the biggest space rock to enter the atmosphere since the Tunguska impact in 1908. A meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to earth has set off a rush to find fragments of the space rock which hunters hope could fetch thousands of dollars a piece. Of time, direction of travel along with more modern tools like video surveillance cameras and Doppler weather radar, which can ping the tracks of falling meteorites, scientists and meteorite hunters have a great many clues on where to look for space rocks. This is a continuation of my two earlier University of Manchester Earth and Solar System blogs here and here about being part of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) meteorite hunting team in Antarctica. How to hunt a space rock Enlarge. Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters book download. JPL's Battle Mountain meteorite hunters. But, nothing seems to be too risky for Farmer when it comes to collecting meteorites. Anchor Aaron Schachter interviews meteorite hunter, Mike Farmer about the business of hunting and selling space rocks.