Daniel

Thank you for the responses.  Steve, I wasn't looking for monetary returns as a reason, I think the chance of me finding a money meteorite is probably as good as me finding a nugget weighing 10 pounds.  Less than zero.  But my Nox 800 came today so who knows.  LOL.  Thanks again.  Dan

Sorry again, I forgot to ask if anyone could point out a couple of threads that would help educate me on this subject.  Thank you for your patience.  As a gold panner, I have so far been pretty much skunked, so I have a lot to learn about all these topics.  Have a great day.  Daniel

Sorry for a maybe dumb question, but just what is the draw of meteorites?  I understand that it is unique and interesting but is there any other reasoning?  I am not saying monetary returns but more like registeries or some acknowledgment of finds etc?  Again I apologize for this if dumb.  I mainly got interested in detectors for gold as I am getting a little fragile with age and no longer play like mountain goats.  I am brand new to detecting but just from reading this forum I have decided coin, beach, jewelry hunting may fit me also.  I understand relics and "old" items from history.  But rocks from space?  Now if they were large enough to mine that another story, but I would want to find it here on earth unless it fell ages ago.  A dinosaur didn't like theirs. LOL  Thanks, Dan