Alright ... hope this 40 yr old story doesn't bore people to death. I am looking for ideas and /or comments.
When I was in my 20's, a terrifically nice old guy I knew asked me if I would be willing to help him set up a trapline with him for the last time in his life (he was well over 70.) He still had all the knowledge he needed to trap muskrats but his body was pretty much worn out. I agreed to carry his traps for him and to set them up where and how he said to. At the agreed upon time, I picked him up and we drove to a small meandering stream in a rural area where he had trapped as a kid.
Within a couple of minutes of leaving the car the old-timer pointed to a normal-looking large rock sticking out of the ground looking very much like any other rock in this cow pasture. He handed me a hammer that we would be using to stake out the traps and directed me to go to the rock and hit it with the hammer. Even though it seemed a strange request, I complied, and to my surprise it rang out as though it was made of metal. He chuckled and said that it was a meteorite and that it had fallen when he, himself, was a kid.
The old-timer is long gone. I am now 64 yrs old. A TV show I watched recently got me thinking about that meteorite again, and I took a drive to see if I could locate that spot from long ago. Sure enough .... I found the spot. The bad news is that there is now a house very close to where i believe the meteorite was (is) located. I don't know if it was covered over when the homeowner graded his yard or picked up with some heavy equipment and dropped it in a gully close by .... or, I suppose, someone could have recognized what it was and saved or sold it. Sure seems like I would have read something about it in the newspaper if the latter were the case though.
As I remember, the ordinary looking "meteorite" was covered with lichen and was about three or four feet in diameter.
The house on the site appears to be about 30 years old ... though I could verify that with a trip to the town clerk.
Any ideas?
When I was in my 20's, a terrifically nice old guy I knew asked me if I would be willing to help him set up a trapline with him for the last time in his life (he was well over 70.) He still had all the knowledge he needed to trap muskrats but his body was pretty much worn out. I agreed to carry his traps for him and to set them up where and how he said to. At the agreed upon time, I picked him up and we drove to a small meandering stream in a rural area where he had trapped as a kid.
Within a couple of minutes of leaving the car the old-timer pointed to a normal-looking large rock sticking out of the ground looking very much like any other rock in this cow pasture. He handed me a hammer that we would be using to stake out the traps and directed me to go to the rock and hit it with the hammer. Even though it seemed a strange request, I complied, and to my surprise it rang out as though it was made of metal. He chuckled and said that it was a meteorite and that it had fallen when he, himself, was a kid.
The old-timer is long gone. I am now 64 yrs old. A TV show I watched recently got me thinking about that meteorite again, and I took a drive to see if I could locate that spot from long ago. Sure enough .... I found the spot. The bad news is that there is now a house very close to where i believe the meteorite was (is) located. I don't know if it was covered over when the homeowner graded his yard or picked up with some heavy equipment and dropped it in a gully close by .... or, I suppose, someone could have recognized what it was and saved or sold it. Sure seems like I would have read something about it in the newspaper if the latter were the case though.
As I remember, the ordinary looking "meteorite" was covered with lichen and was about three or four feet in diameter.
The house on the site appears to be about 30 years old ... though I could verify that with a trip to the town clerk.
Any ideas?
