Comments on: Great Lead – Dead End?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:37:40 +0000

Dion has a good point. You really can’t just hook up any ole car battery to any ole coil of wire wrapped around any ole metal bar and not get burned beyond all recognition. The electromagnet needs to be designed for the purpose. But really I don’t see the need for it. A good sized rare earth magnet will pick up an iron-bearing meteorite just as well with a fraction of the hassle. If you’re really convinced the dog did something with the meteorite, why not offer up a freshly fallen sample from your collection and let it sniff it. If the dog seems to get excited by the smell, then you know you’re dealing with a genuine rock hound and you can begin negotiations – I suggest a bacon burger would be a fair trade. But if he looks at you like you’re crazy and pees on your shoes… well…. then….

By: Dion

Dion — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:34:50 +0000

creating your own magnet is a good idea, but you need to be carefull of the heat generated. Check the Mark on this subject I bet he laready has a couple.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:15:16 +0000

Who believes this BS story? Simple question- where are the meteorites??? Don’t tell me the dog ate them…

Gerald

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:41:19 +0000

Mike,

Are you going to send out a larger mailer?? Give me the parameters and how you want the labels….bar coded, word, acrobat, acres, zip codes….

The mailers should go out before the corn fields are cut so the farmers will keep an eye out for black heavy magnetic rocks. Do you know when the corn fields are typically cut???

If you could pdf me a packet of information, I can pass it out when I am up there this week. The newspaper article would be great. I got it off the net but it doesn’t look the same.

I was talking to some people about the magnetic array thing. The easiest and most powerful way to create a magnet is to wrap a piece of metal with wire and run a current thru it. Text book Electromagnet. You can make the bar as long as possible, wrap it with wire, wrap it in duct tape and run a current, probably a car battery thru the coil. I am just wondering how strong of a magnet it will create??? I think someone will find something during the corn harvest. Just a feeling I have.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:22:12 +0000

the blue grey rocks in the dog hole ? not all but very few meteorites achondrites dont stick to a magnet. dig a hole nearby and compare what you see in your dig to the dog hole. then dig into the dog holes deeper as the damage to the roof and facia might be from material ejected from the dogholes on impact. the meteorites could be burried as much as 2 feet below the surface. my son and a friend dug into a dog hole what they thought was where a turtle laid its eggs, only to find a 4lb charcoal black rock. about 2 feet down. and no turtle eggs.
also meteorites may fall strait down but ejected pebbles from an impact could have damaged the car windows. if the cars have not been moved the chunk of glass inside the cars lined up with the hole should point to the direction of the impact. 3 reference points from three cars should give you a realy precice impact area. I hope its a lunar lol