[meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!

[Bill]

Nut or not, I think it's inspiring that a man of that age is off his "rusty dusty" looking around.

Bill



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> From: cynapse at charter.net
> Sent: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:07:09 -0400
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!
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> http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20070802/NEWS/70802006
> 
> Man finds 1,800-pound meteorite
> 
> by Kurt Hildebrand, khildebrand at recordcourier.com
> August 2, 2007
> 
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> A Gardnerville man said he found an 1,800-pound meteorite in Douglas
> County
> using a device that detects radio signals from minerals.
> Bob Yocum, 82, has been showing the find to folks since Friday when he
> found it
> at an undisclosed location. Yocum said he detected it with his omni-range
> master
> mineral locator.
> The owner of Prospector & TreasureHunters Headquarters in Gardnerville
> said he
> was operating his device two miles from the meteorite when he detected
> it.
> Yocum said when he located the rock, a piece about the size of a pie
> plate was
> visible above the ground.
> It is not the first, nor the largest meteorite he has detected, but it is
> one of
> the largest he’s dug up and hauled off.
> “If I’d known how big it was when I started I might have left it there,”
> he
> said. “I started digging around it and found that it was three-feet long,
> 27
> inches wide and 17 inches deep.”
> Getting the rock into his pickup required two comealongs.
> “I used a tow ribbon to pull it upright and then pulled it into the
> truck,” he
> said. “I left a groove 2 feet wide and 10 inches deep.”
> 
> Yocum said the largest meteorite he’s ever found is 10-12 tons, but that
> he
> didn’t remove it.
> 
> He said striations on the side of the rock indicate it was a meteorite.
> 
> Yocum said the device works by sending out a low frequency radio signal
> that
> matches the molecular pattern of the mineral being sought. When the
> mineral’s
> found, the devices’ antenna meet.
> 
> Yocum said he found out about the device from a prospector who lived in
> Kernville, Calif. Yocum has lived in Northern Nevada for 17 years.
> 
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