I tried it on native pasture land in the Flint Hill region of Kansas - never altered from when buffalo roamed the area and earlier. The hum of the detector was all I heard - not even an odd scrap of iron to break up the monotony. All I got the entire afternoon was exercise.
If you are hunting in old farm fields, you should find plenty of bolts and iron debris from equipment. Maybe a meteorite - you never know.
Unless you are hunting for meteorites in a known fall area, it is just trying to get lucky. They are falling all the time and if a report of a boom, fireball spotted in the sky, etc happens in your area, by all means, get out there and look.
The following was recently in the USA - NC/SC/GA area, but they fall anywhere - lots have been found in the midwest, but I do not know if that means more have fallen here or just more have been found.
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Henderson County, NC?Several people around the Aiken-Augusta area heard a mysterious boom, Friday morning, shortly before 3:00 a.m. Some even heard the boom as far away as North Carolina.
Some people in Henderson County, North Carolina say they also saw a fireball in the sky. They say it seem to fall to the ground.
Others say it was too big to be a shooting star, about the size of a car, but there?s no evidence of anything on the ground.
Group to hunt meteor pieces
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AIKEN --- A group of Western meteorite hunters is headed to Augusta, chasing the possibility a meteor hit somewhere in the region early Friday, bringing reports of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky.
"We will ll be working on this and will probably arrive to interview anyone who witnessed the fall," said Ruben Garcia, of Phoenix, who works with a group of "professional meteorite hunters" and runs the Web site
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. "Newly fallen meteorites are very important to science and the world."
Mr. Garcia said his team would be willing to pay "top dollar" for any pieces of the meteorite, possibly as much as $10,000 for the first kilogram, or 2.2 pounds.
Whether the meteor made it to the ground before disintegrating is unknown.
The boom heard throughout Augusta and reports of a "large fireball" in the sky between 2 and 3 a.m. Friday could have been caused by a meteor, technically called a bolide, said Dr. Gary Senn, the director of the Dupont Pla- netarium in the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center at USC Aiken.
Dr. Senn said its possible the meteor could have hit in the Augusta area, but that depends on whether it exploded when entering the atmosphere -- which could have caused the loud boom -- or whether it hit at an angle that left it intact.
If it stayed intact, he said the sound people heard could have been a sonic boom.
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