Paging Chickin Little. :)
Posted on 11/11/2005 9:31:18 PM PST by anymouse
A rare 1,400-pound (635-kilogram) meteorite was discovered seven feet (2 meters) underground by a collector in an area long known for producing prized space rocks.
Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., found the huge meteorite two weeks ago in Kiowa County’s Brenham Township in southern Kansas.
The meteorite is classified as an oriented pallasite, a type noted for a conical shape with crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy. Only two larger ones of that type are known to have been found: a 3,100-pounder in Australia and a 1,500-pounder in Argentina. Those translate into 1,400 and 680 kilograms respectively.
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Paging Chickin Little. :)
I once passed a stone bigger than that.
Doesn't look like either green kryptonite or red kryptonite. I hope it's not silver kryptonite. (It makes you paranoid.)
It's impossible to predict how much a buyer would pay for the meteorite. However, experts consulted by MSNBC.com said a seven-figure estimate was not unreasonable, considering the usual per-gram price for pallasite specimens and the significance of this particular specimen.
"There hasn't really been anything on the market that we could compare it to," said Geoff Notkin, who helped spread the word about the find on the Meteorite-List e-mail forum.
Well, we could wait for the asteroids to come here before we mine them. (/sarcasm)
Big deal- the whole earth's core is iron-nickel alloy. Now if those crystals are zirconia....
eBay
I'm sure it felt like that!
That's the little town where Jim McDougal started Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
Only true diehard FReepers from the Whitewater days would recognize that piece of information! :-)
The difference is that the meteorite passed quietly because in space no one can hear you scream...
Even more valuable if the crystals are dilithium.
may be worth 12 million dollars
LOL!
Yikes, it must have been awfully painful!
1,400-Pound Meteorite Found in Kansas
Fun stuff on this one, too.
:-)
But yikes, have you calculated the [EXPLETIVE DELETED] shipping charges?
Madison Guaranty (Little Rock) was one of the sights visited by a cheerful gang of Freepers at the "Ground Zero" gathering at Slick Willy's in 1999(?). We also visited the state house, Gennifer's apartment building, the hotel where Sweet Sweet Connie, wearing a purple bikini, tried to give Slick a blewinsky in the laundry room, and after a drive out of town, the railroad tracks where the boys died and that junkyard where Whitewater papers were supposedly found in the trunk of an old car. (The last two spots were scary.)
As it happens, Sweet Sweet Connie, fellatrix to the rock stars, dropped into Slick Willy's and was warmly welcomed by the Freeper party. She had been harassed by Clintonistas, so she carries a report saying she passed her lie detector test about the unconsummated laundry room incident. Slick had seen her sunning by the hotel pool and asked for the blewinsky. She was willing, but they got interrupted in the laundry room and couldn't find a spot to finish. And that was her story that passed the lie detector test. She told us, "I may be a whore, but I'm not a liar."
Btw, Sweet Sweet said she was running for mayor of Little Rock. Several of us chipped in to her campaign fund. Lots of cities have had prostitutes as mayors, but never one so honest about it :-)
Yeah, I knew that whole gang back in the day. It was wild times.
Wow, I have been wanting to buy a metal detector, now maybe I will just for the fun of looking for a Meteorite fragment.
Who would pay that much?
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