Several expeditions had been drilling “straight down” the center of the crater - to try to find the meteor rements dy sample drilling and vertical mining. (Like a gold mine or silver mine.)
Finally, after many years of failures, one person was shooting bullets into the mud around his campfire, and realized that even a low angle shot made a round hole. Then he looked back at the crater waal and found one side pushed up more than the ohers, tried drilling sideways into the wall under the high spot, and immediately found many fragments.
Don’t know if they ever got the whole rock.
Ahhh... I see...
I know that this site is privately owned (for several generations) because originally it was purchased for mining operations, hoping to get some good ore that was supposedly there from the meteorite striking (and hopefully, they were thinking) having enough material left to make it all worthwhile.
Eventually the mining “operation” was shut down and it became a tourist attraction instead.
I know that a lot of people probably assume that this is some sort of public park or something like that, but it’s not. It’s privately owned.