NOVA scienceNOW | Hunting Meteorites | PBS

Space scientist Rob Matson shows Neil deGrasse Tyson his favorite meteorite hunting ground. Tyson is an astrophysicist, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, and the new host of NOVA scienceNOW. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.

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[gadionson1]

that's only a shooting star .. ahahah

[fossilshale]

i saw a meteorite fall in khammam district, andhra in 2005, that is in september around 9pm unfortunately it fell in paddy fields which was damp, so it is impossible for me to get that and also some houses are there aroung that crops , even now i feel very sad about that, that was so close nealy 5 meters distance to my right hand side as i was going home, big may be palm size fire ball, i even heard light buzz sound, it produced trail colours yellow, pale red/orange.

[sebastiansz]

instead of bending down, he could make a long pole/stick with a magnet on the end

[dougmyersinc]

Nice Video,looks like we kind like the same thing, If you really are into meteorites check out our new association (kansasmeteoriteassociation(do­t)weebly(dot)com) we will have our new you tube channel up and running soon. I'll be subscribing as well. Keep the videos coming.

Doug

[PigsCanFly99]

so how do the meteorwrongs get out into the middle of what was once a lake? In the stomach of fish? I don't know - do you?

[rx72004fl]

Apparantly bad meteor jokes are more abundant then the rocks themselves...like.leverite as in Leave-it-right there or the classic Meteor-Wrong

[trailkeeper]

Ok, then its about 1 meteorite per square mile over a long time.

[trailkeeper]

In an open area like that its easier to find a metorite, especially since it "sticks out" and is not burried by the surrounding earth.

Does anyone know of something like a "density of metorites" that can possibly be found in an area, like how many pounds or number of meteorites?

[KSIAxeMan24]

Leaverite

[gjgjkg]

no its not a shooting star its a meteor if thats what u meant :P