Here's my story so far...
I did some research and have found web sites that show all the meteorite falls thru the last 100 years or so. Every state is listed and dates of the falls. I checked out my own state and found that four counties close to me had three falls in the last 100 years. I checked out info on the falls from other sources, these falls were of the stoney type, not heavy iron. This makes finding this type as hard a finding a needle in a haystack. But while out looking for arrowheads I found a dark rock with thumbprinting (one of the clues) about two inches long. I checked all the meteorwrong pics and it did not match them, so I did more research and found out only about 1% of stoney meteorites are non-magnetic, makes it even harder to tell if real or not. Took it to the Geology Department at a Local University to get checked. They did the magnet test, of course it failed, they did a scratch test on tile and the Professor said " humm, never saw that before". He drew the stone across the tile and it made a black mark, then once more and nothing. The fusion crust left the black mark, but the stone under the fusion crust did not leave a mark. Earth rocks will leave red-brown marks on the tile...Conculsion from the University was "we can't tell", so.........I took it to a bigger University which does more tests, yes they did the magnet and the tile tests, now they are doing a complete analysis of the rock and it has been sent to the lab. No results back yet.
If you are looking for iron meteorites will getting yourself a Infinium L/S by Garrett with Iron check help locate what you are looking for?
Bottom line, look where other meteorites have fallen, check directions of strun fields, get permission to hunt, take a good magnet with you, and get an Infinium. In my case it was just looking in an erosion area and spotting the dark fusion encrustation and thumbprinting. Look at plenty of photos of stoney, stoney-iron, and iron types of meteorites. Maybe I have found a rare one, maybe not , but it sure is fun when you stump the egg headed professors! Will keep ya updated good or bad when we get the lab results.
3Qtr
I did some research and have found web sites that show all the meteorite falls thru the last 100 years or so. Every state is listed and dates of the falls. I checked out my own state and found that four counties close to me had three falls in the last 100 years. I checked out info on the falls from other sources, these falls were of the stoney type, not heavy iron. This makes finding this type as hard a finding a needle in a haystack. But while out looking for arrowheads I found a dark rock with thumbprinting (one of the clues) about two inches long. I checked all the meteorwrong pics and it did not match them, so I did more research and found out only about 1% of stoney meteorites are non-magnetic, makes it even harder to tell if real or not. Took it to the Geology Department at a Local University to get checked. They did the magnet test, of course it failed, they did a scratch test on tile and the Professor said " humm, never saw that before". He drew the stone across the tile and it made a black mark, then once more and nothing. The fusion crust left the black mark, but the stone under the fusion crust did not leave a mark. Earth rocks will leave red-brown marks on the tile...Conculsion from the University was "we can't tell", so.........I took it to a bigger University which does more tests, yes they did the magnet and the tile tests, now they are doing a complete analysis of the rock and it has been sent to the lab. No results back yet.
If you are looking for iron meteorites will getting yourself a Infinium L/S by Garrett with Iron check help locate what you are looking for?
Bottom line, look where other meteorites have fallen, check directions of strun fields, get permission to hunt, take a good magnet with you, and get an Infinium. In my case it was just looking in an erosion area and spotting the dark fusion encrustation and thumbprinting. Look at plenty of photos of stoney, stoney-iron, and iron types of meteorites. Maybe I have found a rare one, maybe not , but it sure is fun when you stump the egg headed professors! Will keep ya updated good or bad when we get the lab results.
3Qtr
I've found a heck of a lot more meterorongs, too!
Best of luck to ya.
Happy Hunting!