The Mysterious Arizona Meteorite That Baffled Experts | Meteorite Men | Spark
The Mysterious Arizona Meteorite That Baffled Experts | Meteorite Men | Spark
In the 1850’s a Mexican farmer came across a huge meteorite in Arizona. It became known as the “Tucson Ring” and now resides at the Smithsonian. In this episode, Arnold and Notkin search for more pieces in an attempt to solve one of the biggest mysteries in the world of meteorite hunters.
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For thousands of years, meteorites have slammed into the Earth’s surface carrying an invaluable record of the origins of our solar system. But finding meteorites on Earth, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task.
Meteorite hunters Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkin travel to some of the most remote locations around the world to explore the scientific and financial value of meteorites. Featuring treks in Chile, Sweden, Australia, the US, Mexico, and more, these meteorite men meet with top scientists, geologists, astronomers, and meteorite experts to reveal a deeper understanding of how meteorites have helped to build our solar system and shape our planet.
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I truly wish these guys were planetary geologists. Everything here is basically conjecture from the opinion of lay people simplifying down a very complex field of study that require lots of complex analyses that is done exclusively in laboratories throughout the world—not a field trip arranged by fortune seekers.
Thats were the moon came into Contact with the Earth bounced off and the rest is history:)
Men men men
I say a little sissy.
Huh their last shot yall got your whole lives ahead nothing says you gotta give up
tip… they always find it round about the 40 minute mark.. saves time 😉
most of the meteorites are high magnetics….. i think you can detect them from a distance…. or radioactive…. 🌏 📡🌏 👣🕘 💎👽☠☼☾☄ゞど・ㇺㇾㇽ₪𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖇𝖎𝖗𝖆₪なめㇺㇾㇽ✶☥✨🌛🌄⊀✶⋊🐺🐾♓️☆🐜🐜🐫▲▴◭
Maybe while they are looking they will find the meteorites from the biblical rain of fire.
Hey boys is that an ARGO yall are driving? If not please let me know I go rockhounding all the time here in Az. Cause I live just 75 miles west of the location yall where hunting in. And at 62 years of age I think that critter yall was using would be great on my feet
Why don’t you go to the Mexican Gulf and investigate the meteor that killed 75% of living creatures on earth?
This is horseshit…
I found a couple pieces I live in Tucson have to get them checked out
Who’s to say that the nickel didn’t erode away like supposedly it did in the bigger pieces that were found so many unanswered questions
I’ll ask another Question! Why didn’t they ask the Rancher, were he found those rocks.
So they could Map Them. And just maybe, fine another Hot Spot, for their Secret Map.
Great job , patience is a virtue. And a new meteorite too! Awesome ! I enjoyed your video and your quest into the desert the terrain was beautiful and native and serene . It felt so cozy . As you were walking around. Of course taking precaution s for snake and scorpions is always a must and plenty of drinking water! H2 O helps. Best wishes on your future finds and search adventures . Another video would be nice to watch. Flat tire made me laugh , driving skills practice makes perfect . hahaha. Your humor helped make it light hearted as well. Thank you for sharing and showing Tucson meteorite Famous in museum . That’s awesome! I didn’t know about it’s use as a blacksmith horse show table it was used for sharing horse shoes . As in olden days people used what was around the desert to work on their skills who knew. Now if science around and able to identify rocks at a glance that’s even better. Thanks for Historical facts as well. 😁🏜️
That has electric arch written all over it. A massive bolt that arched between earth and mars around ten thousand years ago.
Is this episode like 20 years old? Why is the Professor using box monitors? I can mail them a brand new UHD for better resolution.
This is presented in such a corny manner as to not appear professional. Best of luck!
Seen some good ones. If you want your own leave a bowl or tray out filled with water an keep it topped up an after a while run a magnet thru it an some of the crud is magnetic an fell from space
Kaimanawa Wall NZ government corruption or denial of historical truth? NZ unity not division into two peoples we need our history pre-Maori restored by physical proof. Who is stopping us?
Hear is a thing when all the mountains around you are round why is there a pyramid straight in front of you at 15.06 17.46 22.30 seconds just saying some great an exellent fnds good vlog guys peace from Spain
So many have been led astray by all of scientisms lies. Can’t you just grasp that the whole foundation of these theories are lies. SMH at the utter embiciles who believe they have some kind of knowledge along with you, the followers
Interesting. I lived in Arizona, Chandler and Phoenix from 1995 to 2019. I remember seeing the most amazing meteor back around 1996 I think it was. I was out in the back yard in Chandler with my telescope when the Southern sky lit up. Almost daylight and I saw a huge and long lasting meteor breaking up, down towards Tucson. I have seen another one in the afternoon from Chandler, pretty bright and very visible. I have hiked often during those years from Flagstaff on down South. I completely understand the time and effort that it takes to do what you do. A great state for hiking and telescope viewing. Thanks
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i’m hoping to see them find a big kilo gold nugget and hear them say, "damnit, that’s not iron."
Where do you think the U+S go+v deto+nated the nucle+ar bom+bs? They leave wholes like that. They are still detonating in the desert.
when is this published? What year? Is the information still relevant and/or correct?
I can’t believe it. You guys are surrounded by watchers!
Look for rust dust
I truly believe that old prospector, Prolly found several pieces of Meteorites and tossed em away!!! The Fool was looking for Gold and threw away pieces that were several times their weight in GOLD!!! :0
The rock hound has no suspension must be a miserable ride !!!!
My wife rakes the rocks from her flower beds and is building a wall. The neighbor drives by and… stops and looks at the wall. Asks her if she can grab a rock. Sure. She does. About half the size of a fist. Puts a magnet to it. It sticks. She asks her if she wants to sell it or keep it. Why? It’s a meteorite….. Fastest $95 my wife ever got from her garden, half the value as we split it with our neighbor… Who hunts meteorites and we never knew it. And this one, she barely had to leave home to find.
Actually my neighbors dog dug that crater
He has dug up my neighbors back yard and it looks about that big.
He chewed up his metal collar and that what you found with your magnet.
All Scyted
OK I believe yall are out hunting these wonders of the cosmos and I hope yall have lots of luck and find something yall can be proud of finding although the map and the differences in the personalities and sworn secrecy is a little scripted in my opinion among other things but still a fun show , I personaly grew up in Arizona and went hunting for just about everything and it’s amazing to see the things you can find , I really miss living in Arizona my opinion the desert is the best environment to inhabit on earth
Sorry, but too many opinions without any factual evidence to back them up.
The opinion ( at 4.03 vid time ) about 2 inertia speeds for 2 separate sized pieces is not possible once the forces have been applied (gravity ) and max speeds reached following friction caused heat damage/breakup.
The fact that the meteorite broke up after entry due to friction heat/composite shape and 90% vaporisation occurred leaving multi-fragmented intrusion material, will determine the debris spread subject to angle of impact.
Most impact sites on earth are direct angle resulting in the vaporisation of both the meteorite and the contact point, hence the circular blast area.
Fragments discovered around the area are only parts of the meteorite itself, and claims to have found "a" meteorite are actually impossible to happen and should be called finding "a part of a meteorite" to keep it factual.
A "bounce" impact site will provide more fragmentation and usually in a line parallel to the impact point in the direction of strike, and up to 15 miles in both areas.
The Arizona area has multiple bounce sites and studies done show the patterns described above.
That would be a magazine. Not a clip.
Are those Canadian accents I hear?
All the work to find the one piece, but yeah, whatever they WENT to find is eclipsed by a new, unique piece that will always be associated with THEIR work and no one else’s!!! 🙂
In the early 1970’s we were southbound on CA. State Hwy 111 at about 10:39 pm during the summer. My friend and I were about 3-5 miles south of the State Park in Salton Sea. We suddenly saw what appeared to be a huge ball of fire traveling south to north over the Salton Sea. It looked like an old time movie prop as it had flaming debris falling straight down. I was wondering why it wasn’t streaming out behind the object. As low as it looked I would chance to say it landed in western Arizona or the bombing range east of Indio California and south of the I-10. This has to have been about 1971-72.
Here in my place all the pieces we find are meteorwrongs but im hopeful that one day i will find the RITE one.
Hey guys, there’s a silver UFO landed right near you. In the recording right at the beginning I noticed it on the left side of a hill and then again when thee yellow banner shows the temperature you can see it. There’s also ETA sitting on boulders bear it.
It is definitely cool that several of the finds really do seem to jump out at you visually compared with what appears to be the vast majority of rock and mineral pieces that make up that terrain. I tried a little work with mineral … ‘rock hounding’ I think it was called. A small kit of various mineral samples, book about characteristics like color and hardness and whatnot. But the limitations on my travel, and the fact that my area of Baltimore County, MD was so much clay and sediment… it didn’t hold my interest long. My limited experience advice? Get your kids a decent rock tumbler starter kit along with the rock hammer and mineral testing solutions, so even the boring pieces can be cleaned up. Even simple quartz, granite, and metamorphic samples can clean up to be pieces with their own beauty, or enough to use for art or jewelry and such.
The finder of the Tucson ring did not take the larger pieces because his donkeys could not haul anything larger (donkeys not horses). These guys need to do more research they are in the wrong place…they need to go east of tubac in the Mt Wrightson wilderness.
2 boring yanks
Interesting 💕❤️🌺👵
When I was a kid. lived in a Big lot house. I used to dig in the backyard dirt for small rocks that a magnet would grab. I found you they were meteorite debris.
has anyone thought about these meteor pieces coming from meteor crater…they never found its iron core just pieces of it all over and this is only a couple hundred miles away…which by the size of the impact is possible to throw stuff that far
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I wonder how much of this is staged?