Oh, look. I found it right in my backyard!
Posted on 11/14/2019 3:43:43 AM PST by Libloather
A gem and mineral museum is offering $25,000 to the first person who can find a chunk of the meteor spotting streaking across Midwestern skies this week.
Experts have an idea of where it might’ve landed.
The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum announced Tuesday that it will give the hefty payout to the first person who can find a kilogram of the meteor, according to a news release. The basketball-sized fireball blazed across the sky at 33,500 mph, McClatchy news group reported.
Video showed it trailing across the Missouri sky on Monday night. People also reported seeing it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Nevada, McClatchy reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
How hard is it to make a fugazi of it?
Looks to me like it all burned up before it could hit.
It is actually interesting metallurgy. King Tut had a dagger made from the stuff. I watched a documentary recently on “The Ulfbert”. Fascinating!
The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum will payout for a KILOGRAM of it!
WTF? This is America! Why in the world aren’t they paying for two POUNDS of it? Damn furrin radicals.
I used to work for a company that did metal detecting for the space shuttle Columbia wreckage. They had a bunch of guys doing a lot of walking with metal detectors.
$25,000 probably covered five days of work for one crew.
Of course for some retired guy it might be worth it. Or he could look for a needle in a hay stack.
Beware the Blob!
The article says the museum is offering an above market price, assuming the meteor isn’t rare.
Oh, look. I found it right in my backyard!
Replicas are $250 online. They claim to be “even better steel” but I suspect that means it is commercially available steel with very similar properties but not actually forged or quenched. IOW it is just ground from stock. Which may be “just as good” but it won’t have that veneer of very hard steel at the edge that you get from forging and quenching.
If you know what materials we need to make a fugazi and get the 25 large, Private Mail me :)
Thanks Libloather.
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Meteor Falling Over St. Louis, Missouri (November 11, 2019)
missouri meteor site:youtube.com
It certainly brightened up the area for a few moments, but it looks like it burned up before it could make landfall.
We were sitting in the living room and saw it out the front window. It was pretty cool!
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