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Brian (briguy) posted an update Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012, 9:49pm EDT, 13 years, 4 months ago
Okaaaaaaay! Something I can opine on. As you might have heard, i'm one those "weirdos" you see gleefully creeping around in forests, parks, and old fields. Never have detected up a meteorite, but then the goal of my metal detecting is actually to NOT find one. I spend nearly a year tweeking the "discrimination" abilities of my unit to NOT signal there is a lump of iron down there.
Think about it. My last Mercury dime was found in a Cook Co Forest preserve. Right there for 70 years only 30 feet from the parking lot,....in between 11.2 million rusting bottle caps, spent cartridge cases/bullets (welcome to Chicago), and assorted "can slaw (created when the lazy park workers, not wanting to get up, simply mow Pepsi cans into WW2 era aluminum "chaff"). Modern detectors can now target and analyze the return signals found, providing a fairly good guess at the composition of the metal involved. Suddenly fields of mind numbing metalic debris and distractions, like which I just described, are once again "sniffable".
But any as yet undiscovered iron based meterorites, out there in those endless fields of Budweiser caps......will remain masked and hidden for now. :o)
