[meteorite-list] Re: The other Brenham hunter

From: Gary K. Foote <gary_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 12 09:19:33 2006
Message-ID: <44644493.2047.7065FD_at_localhost>

It seems to me this fellow is not trying to gain publicity. It seems more like the media
have latched onto him as another successful hiunter. Remember the human interest aspect,
'Owner of land where original crater is located finds meteorites on his own property'.

Gary

On 12 May 2006 at 9:08, Darren Garrison wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2006 21:50:56 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >The thing is, I wouldn't have spent the first ten years sitting on my
> >backside when there were meteorites in the ground. I would have figured
> >out a way to find them, or asked Steve Arnold to come find them for me
>
> But you said it yourself-- Steve used "new techiniques and technology". So what
> was possible now might not have been feasible 10 years ago. If finding them 10
> years ago required, say, using heavy equipment to dig the whole feild down to 10
> feet then sift through the whole mess with mining equipment, then you can't
> fault him for not doing it then. So I can't fault him for not having the
> creativity/equipment to do it 10 years ago, and I can't fault him for starting
> to look for them now. I only fault him for attempting to cash in on some of the
> attention and the glory now.
>
> I'd like to see what would happen if more people adopted Steve's equipment and
> methods and started "cold searching" random plots of land. No doubt if enough
> people did it enough places, some of those searches would come up with new
> finds.
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