[meteorite-list] Treasure Hunters

Wed Apr 26 00:46:50 EDT 2006

Hi Thaddeus,

I just returned from both trips. I had the opportunity to hunt and 
watch Steve and Geoff recover the two large Brenham meteorites. When 
the show airs you will see some of the work that it took to locate and 
recover the Brenham meteorites. Every Brenham meteorite is Gps'd, 
placed on a map, soil sample taken from under the meteorite and  last 
depth of meteorite. Steve and Geoff should be applauded for their 
dedication with the recovery of these meteorites and record keeping.  
As far as the looting, all of the land in the Brenham strewn field is 
private property. Steve and his hunting partner have contracts with all 
of the land owners. The land owners were very happy with the work that 
Steve is doing.

Now for the Glorieta Mountain segment. All of the hunting was done on 
private property with the approval from the owners. The adjoining 
federal agencies were also contacted.  I am not sure if the 
Universities will be interested in studying anymore of the common 
Glorieta meteorites as this type has been classified and studied in the 
past.  The property owners had a blast with the TV crew and the 
hunters. What better pr work for meteorite hunters and the public. As 
for " we don't need degrees to collect lumps of asteroids, planets and 
comets." You would be surprised by the scientists that work side by 
side with us in the field. Without the recovery work from hunters you 
would never have all of the new meteorites to study and enjoy. All of 
these hunters document their finds, take pictures in situ, measure the 
depth of the meteorite, location of nearest find etc.. I would like to 
show you how much work it is to find a meteorite and the time involved, 
4-6 hours driving time, 8-10 hours hiking around with the temperatures 
sometimes over 110 degrees. Now do this for weeks without finding one 
meteorite and you will learn the dedication that it takes to hunt and 
properly record your finds.  I would love to see all the work you have 
done for the meteorite community.

Sonny

Nevadameteorites.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Thaddeus Besedin <endophasy at yahoo.com>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Treasure Hunters

Oh great - another glorification of looting (relic hunting)! Do Any of 
the Brenham pits get at least a cursory record of their possible 
prehistoric components? I'm justifiably and unassailably an enemy of 
the irresponsible, counterscientific, hobbyist attitudes glorified by 
certain people and uncritically tolerated by others (accomplices). No, 
we don't need degrees to collect lumps of asteroids, planets, and 
comets, but a bit of respect for irreplacable biological taxa and 
cultural residues would make us more than drooling, avaricious 
freebooters.

Ruben Garcia <meteoritemall at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi all,
We had a great time filming an episode of "Cash and
Treasure". A new series on the Travel Channel that
will air in early 2007. Each show will be an hour long
and will feature various types of treasure hunting.
>From gold prospecting to relic hunting to meteorites,
it should be great.

Our half of the one hour show will feature Geoff
Notkin, Mike Miller, Sonney Clary, Keith Jenkerson and
Myself. It will detail a recent Glorieta Mountain
hunting trip where we found on and off camera 12
Glorieta "Gems" by 3:30 p.m. and 16 total for the day!

The second half of the show will spotlight Steve
Arnold along with Geoff Notkin finding meteorites in
the Brenham strewn field that most of us only dream
of.

This show is unique in that they insisted that nothing
be staged or set-up. Everything was real! There was no
planting meteorites, we were asked to just go and see
what we could do. I think most of us were pleased to
come up with what we did.

The specimens were small averaging only about 10 or 12
grams each. But as anyone who has ever hunted Glorieta
knows, one could walk for days and never get close to
these extra-terrestrial gems.

Check out some of the pictures:

Geoff, Mike, Sonny, Keith, Me before the cameras
rolled

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=e579re2&.dnm=e3f1
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Keep Out!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=e579re2&.dnm=b500
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Me and Becky(host of the show) finding the first
glorieta meteorite on camera!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=e579re2&.dnm=91d2
re2.jpg&.src=ph

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=e579re2&.dnm=2787
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Mike, Sonny, Ruben, Geoff and Luke the "camera man"
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=5c0bre2&.dnm=8f57
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Me and Geoff
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=5c0bre2&.dnm=8267
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Our finds by 3:30 pm
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/meteoritemall/detail?.dir=e579re2&.dnm=3c1b
re2.jpg&.src=ph

Ruben Garcia

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