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

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:47:33 +0200
Message-ID: <001301ca061b$f922ede0$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

Well... but aren't that two different sports, difficult to compare, to hunt
on the ice and in a hot rocky desert?

http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/lrn/pictures/ant/sun_snow_ice.jpg

http://kuerzer.de/Hopper3000

http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/lrn/pictures/ant/flags3.jpg

vs.

http://kuerzer.de/Whereishopper

http://www.saharamet.com/desert/meteorite/tracks.jpg

http://www.mdpub.com/newphotos/Oct06/desert2.jpg


(...I read a paper, which said, that the average pairing rate among the
Antarcic field numbers is 5.
So that the 35,000 Antarctic numbers represent 7,000 different meteorites.
Only wanted to mention that, cause some forget that, if they compare hot
with cold desert finds.)



-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Randy
Korotev
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2009 15:04
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] WHO IS THE BEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL METEORITE
HUNTER OUT THERE?

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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