A Meteorite Has Landed Right Near Me But I Think Impossible To Find

[phrunt]

2 hours ago, GotAU? said:

Sorta like that 1 ouncer both you and I have been hoping to find!😁

Simon, any dopler weather stations in those areas? Meteorite hunters here in the states use that info (which is public) to track those for finding fall fields.

Yea, I'd love to find a meteorite, maybe more than a big nugget.  

I was flying back from Australia the other day and took photos of the nearby mountain ranges on the way back into NZ so you get an idea of why I think it's in the too hard basket for me at least 🙂

Finding a little rock in amongst that is beyond me.

[EL NINO77]

Simon.. maybe you don't have to look for this meteorite...

Sometimes a meteorite will just find you,,, when you're detecting in the field and looking for coins or gold nuggets... in your New Zealand..

 
 

[EL NINO77]

On 5/23/2025 at 6:17 PM, EL NINO77 said:

Simon.. maybe you don't have to look for this meteorite...

Sometimes a meteorite will just find you,,, when you're detecting in the field and looking for coins or gold nuggets... in your New Zealand..

 
 

Now it happened again...last week on Sunday I was hanging out for 2 hours detecting from VERSA.. ,

Since I make a lot of videos from detection and testing,,,I recorded the target signal before digging,,and also after digging the meteorite..

while digging the target I had the same feeling again - when I found my first meteorite..that it is not as light in weight as an ordinary stone, but not as heavy as a lump of old sintered iron.. as well as the VDI target was in the nickel zone..

 

 

 

[phrunt]

11 hours ago, EL NINO77 said:

Now it happened again...last week on Sunday I was hanging out for 2 hours detecting from VERSA.. ,

Since I make a lot of videos from detection and testing,,,I recorded the target signal before digging,,and also after digging the meteorite..

while digging the target I had the same feeling again - when I found my first meteorite..that it is not as light in weight as an ordinary stone, but not as heavy as a lump of old sintered iron.. as well as the VDI target was in the nickel zone.

Outstanding, hopefully one day I find one.

[GotAU?]

@phrunt “Outstanding, hopefully one day I find one.”
 

[GotAU?]

On 7/4/2025 at 9:29 AM, EL NINO77 said:

Now it happened again...last week on Sunday I was hanging out for 2 hours detecting from VERSA.. ,

Since I make a lot of videos from detection and testing,,,I recorded the target signal before digging,,and also after digging the meteorite..

while digging the target I had the same feeling again - when I found my first meteorite..that it is not as light in weight as an ordinary stone, but not as heavy as a lump of old sintered iron.. as well as the VDI target was in the nickel zone..

 

A buddy of mine found this one in Arizona, you can see the old fusion crust weathering away on it. He filed a ‘window’ on one side to verify it, and you can see the nickel/iron specks inside.  Have you tried this with your specimen?

 

[EL NINO77]

My colleague Romulus,,, with whom I consulted this meteorite, who has been looking for meteorites for many years, recommended it to me..., or even drill it.., but also depending on how strongly the magnet attracts this meteorite... it can be determined that it contains a strong proportion of nickel... even the VDI is strongly in the nickel zone..
When I return home from Spain, I will definitely do such a test for the nickel content... with my colleague Romulus, who is looking for meteorites..

 ...colleague Romulus and various types of some meteorites that he has in his collection

[tvanwho]

Somebody got one not 40 miles west of me, a fresh fall,here in central Indiana, this year. I  dunno how they lucked out exactly? I have tried to map dowse for them but have only got 1 possibility and its in Arizona. Appears to me to be a strewn field altho I cannot prove it.But I found an account in a pioneer book I read on the place. It said something about the sound of rocks hitting the roof that night during a storm.Altho, that could also have been hail I suppose. A friend who lived out that way told me that area was too dangerous as its close to the Mexico border and I better have a gun. I was attempting to probe for the location of the Tucson Anvil meteorite from 1870 era.Nobody knew where it was found but it showed up out of nowheres and somebody made it into an anvil so the story goes.