Meteorite hunter Employment .

[Bobbyoutback]

Greetings :)
I,m a meteorite hunter , Ray at Bathurst Observatory is doing a classification on one of my new finds at the moment.

What I'm after is a clever meteorite hunter who can use a GPS to grid & methodically hunt a certain area .
I want to employ that person to re-find a huge meteorite I came across back in 2000 .
If your out there and like money , fame & adventure ~ then the successful end result will supply all of those ..

Please no dreamers thanks .

Bobby.

[xelasnave]

I am by some folks opinion "out there" however dont like money, fame or adventure so I am not your man but I must ask... how can you "re-find" a meteorite? They are a moment of destruction we can witness but after they are gone..forever..if not longer...
I thought that once they entered our world they burnt up making any re-finding rather ...er impossible...
alex

[Allan_L]

The ones that burn up are meteors.
Meteorites actually hit the ground and therefore leave pieces of the meteorite to be found.
So if thats the case, you would "re-find" it by combing the ground in the area it was reported to have struck. I guess that is where the GPS comes in.

At least I think thats how it works.

What area do want people to look in? This may help with the recruitment.

[Bobbyoutback]

Hi Allan ,

What I mean by "re-find" is help me locate a multi ton big Iron I found once eroding out of the ground , at the time I just didn't have any knowledge of meteorites so just dismissed it from my mind , can remember the area its in near Broken Hill.

Cheers Bobby.

[Ian Robinson]

Sounds like a wild goose chase to me.

What you claim you saw was most likely a big nodule of iron ore.

[GrahamL]

Is this it ?

-31° 59' 42.55", +141° 32' 48.29"

[Bobbyoutback]

Thats the town from 15,000 m high on Google Earth :thumbsup:

[Blue Skies]

Don't dismiss it so lightly - this is indeed how some big meteorites have been found, by people literally tripping over them sticking out of the ground. The one near Frankston (SE of Melbourne), the Cranbourne meteorite, was found this way. The big bits from the Mundrabilla fall on the Nullabor were also dug up - I've seen the photos taken by one of the people on the recovery mission. Quite a job that was!

I'll keep an open mind on this one until Bobbyoutback can find it again and confirm yes/no.

[Bobbyoutback]

I can remember looking at it & trying to understand whats this :question:
Still have a visual picture in my mind of this large rusted mass just protruding above the ground .
There were deep regmaglypts showing & parts with calcite coating .

In all the years I've spent roaming the desert I've never seen anything like it .



Cheers Bobby.