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

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 9:10:15 -0700
Message-ID: <20090716121015.E08PE.352000.imail_at_fed1rmwml31>

Randy,
Isn't this ANSMET technique more like fishing? Or even "fishing in a barrel"? Isn't NWA similar?
It seems to me we need different categories of hunting here.
If you can see your prey while sitting in your car or on a snowmobile how is that hunting?
As in many true sports the difficulty factor aids in the final score. Look no farther than the Olympics and the way they judge the scoring.
Another category would have to be trophy hunting. In this your man would rank high based on his Mars finds alone.
But in terms of Lunar web sites Randy your are by far the best.
My 2 cents.

--
Carl or Debbie Esparza
IMCA 5829
Meteoritemax
---- Randy Korotev <korotev at wustl.edu> wrote: 
> 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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