[meteorite-list] WHO IS THE BEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER OUT THERE?

Randy Korotev korotev at wustl.edu
Thu Jul 16 09:04:20 EDT 2009


If we're counting rocks, then the answer is John Schutt of ANSMET
(followed closely by Cassidy and Harvey, as Jeff mentioned):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schutt
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/sports/othersports/25outdoors.html

He's been doing this since 1980 and probably has personally found 
10-20% of the ANSMET collection.  The Wikipedia stub doesn't begin to 
do this guy justice.  Every year he has to make sure some 
newbie-lab-scientist-volunteer doesn't do something stupid.  In 1988, 
I almost lost my snowmobile over a cliff.  I parked it, not knowing 
that it didn't have a brake.  It succumbed to gravity and headed 
downhill.  John ran after it, tackled it, and prevented it from going 
over the edge.

The guy can spot and classify meteorites from 100 meters.

Randy Korotev





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