Metal detection could pay $10,000

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Heard that some one from the U.S. is willing to pay that 10 grand to find that meteorite that fell near Manitou Lake Saskatchewan last week.
The size of this rock was estimated to be as small as a basketball to up as big as a small car..
Likely would have disintegrated in smaller fragments closer to earth.
Very close to John-Edmontons hunting area.
Good reason for him to also detect the lake and beach at he same time

 

[gordygroover]

wonder how a person could tell a meterorite that fell last week from one that came down twenty years ago???
I guess a non=recent impact would have more algae and earth based microbes detectable under microsopic testing growing in the nooks and crannies.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

A recent drop would likely be shiny and polished.
The old ones I,ve seen were brownish rusty looking due to the high iron content.
The higher nickel content were more polished with some rusty specks.
The stony one looked more like ironed speckled rocks.
They were all extremely heavy .Some of them were slightly holey with indentations
If you goggle meteorite you'll find good info on there composition
They may come up as hot rocks when your detecting.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah the Snowman needs to get his meteorite gear and get out there and scare up some fragments.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

They might still be a little warm also, especially if buried and insulated.

Bill

 

[NM5K]

I was thinking about that when I saw the video.. I've seen a few pretty bright
space rocks, but that was a whopper. Way brighter than any one I've seen.
The brightest one I've ever seen was at dusk, and was green for the most
part.
Now.... Way back in the late 50's, or maybe early 1960 or so, they had a real
bright rock that blew in over the Dallas area. My parents said it lit up everything
like the sun for a few seconds. So it might have been close to that one.
But.. I missed it myself, being I was either too young, or was in bed counting
furry white animals.. Any of you older tecter-heads remember a bright meteor
over the central US around the late 50's?
I've heard of a couple of people that remember it, but not a whole lot..
It must have been a whopper like that Canadian version, cuz I remember
them talking about it to this day. And I was only about 3, 4 or 5 years old or so..
I remember the next day my dad was talking about it lighting up everything
in the area. I guess he saw it...