Astronomy How To - Collecting meteorites

Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher shares treasures from his personal meteorite collection and gives advice on starting your own.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• aviation
• space
• diy
• astronomy
• meteorites

[j0hnsc4r]

i wish i had a meteorite

[Melma27008]

Chances are it was probably slag. Meteorites are very rare.

[guitarplayer4real]

By all accounts other than the television, meteorite collecting is fully illegal. I have inquired about this for my astronomy hobby which I have been into for close to 20 years and even involved with the local observatory.

Go ahead and ask around and see just how legal this meteorite collecting is.. and the news programs never even mention this. Be careful if you do this intentionally and on public land. What lands in your yard may also be taken away.

[STAMINAS1]

man im going all around internet searching for metorite videos since yesterday , i was in the car with my dad we where going home ... it was night and on our right we saw a fireball than the fireball desapared im amazed

[rogelio391]

@Melma27008 i have allot but they are small ones

[matane993]

i wanna hawe a big pice of the canyon diablo. to worke in a smithy whit. wanna see how good sword or knife i can create of it. if a earth steel can get extremly hard so whud a pise of metal from space bee ewen harder cuse it has traweled past milions of hot placec and get hardened ower and ower agenn. whud possibel bee impossible to work in. but whud bee nice to give it a trye.

[SisterLoquacious]

I must have missed the "How To" part of this video

[dischordia23]

@Melma27008 Actually two Martians in North America: Los Angeles and Lafayette

[hinamaturior]

去没开发的海边看看

[Melma27008]

Lunars are more rare by weight than Martian meteorites, and even more valuable. There is one Martian meteorite that was found in North America called "Los Angeles"... to date, not one Lunar has been found in the Americas.