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

Meteorite hunters scouring North America for pieces of rock from outer space are confirming something Illinois residents already know: Meteorites are a hot commodity. Man makes meteorites his life's work, Marvin Killgore makes his living hunting, collecting, selling and trading ancient space rocks. None of the rocks brought to me turned out to be meteorites: an oddly shaped scrape of iron, a large (and beautiful) chunk of galena or titanium, a simple Earth stone with an unusual appearance. Meteor-hunting adventurers, led by Ralph P. I see my interest for meteorites in many dimensions: hunting > collecting > selling > tooling > researching. It was 1938, and they were hunting animals, not space rocks, but one of the men had learned enough about the subject from Chabot Observatory to identify the 2700 pound chunk of nickel-iron as a meteorite. "It's Christmas in January," said former NASA sciences chief Alan Stern, director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida. Anchor Aaron Schachter interviews meteorite hunter, Mike Farmer about the business of hunting and selling space rocks. And since 1976, an organization called The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) has journeyed to the most barren place on earth to collect space rocks. Explaining how to spot a meteorite. Rocket on students about rockets and space rocks. Alas, it wasn't a meteorite…. Objects from space crashing into the Earth is generally considered pretty terrible. When he first started searching for meteorites, there were few meteorite hunters. Start looking for some meteorites, people: a piece of Mars just discovered by meteor hunters in Morocco has been confirmed as real by NASA. But, nothing seems to be too risky for Farmer when it comes to collecting meteorites. Our space activities included identifying meteorites from earth rocks, demonstrating a model rocket and its flight and a Space Invaders game designed by SpaceGambit. Now it's selling for The NASA committee confirmed the rocks' origins through their age and by matching the rock's chemical signature to Mars' known atmospheric signature. The Moon and Mars rocks, famous iron meteorite and meteorite from an asteroid named Vesta did steal the show.