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Posted on Fri, Oct. 13, 2006
Does world-record meteorite await unearthing in Kansas?
Scientists and the man who detected a large object beneath a wheat field may know today.
By KEVIN MURPHY The Kansas City Star

Something big is buried beneath a south-central Kansas wheat field, according to Steve Arnold?s metal detector.

But could it be a meteorite, likely the largest ever found on Earth? Or could it be something as mundane as an old tractor?

Meteorite hunter Arnold and some scientists may know the answer today as they use special equipment to make images of the object, which Arnold?s metal detector measured at 12 feet by 18 feet and perhaps 7 feet below ground.

. . . . .  Arnold made big news last fall when on the same farm he uncovered a 1,400-pound pallasite meteorite, the largest of its type ever found. It had a rare bullet-like shape and smooth surface, and was made of nickel and olivine crystals.



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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2006, 03:12:21 pm »
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Great story.  Will be interesting to hear what they do find.  Thanks for posting.

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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2006, 04:15:00 pm »
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man he found another one i saw the last one he found they are worth a lot of money hh

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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2006, 05:09:13 pm »
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Thanks for the great link. I've been following this story ever since the original find. Should be a very interesting ( and perhaps profitable) day.

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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2006, 06:38:43 am »
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According the latest instrument readings- they don't think they found a really large meteorite. It seems to be a few smaller pieces in the same vicinity giving it the appearance of one very large piece. Barring heavy rain- they plan to dig today. We should know more later on.

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It'll be interesting to hear what is found.

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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2006, 08:53:31 am »
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I didn't catch that this was a different article until this a.m. So I'm wondering if he found some cable at 18 inches, why he'd call out the ground penetrating folks. I can understand his excitement and all - he surely was getting reading of nickel on his detector.   

Below are a couple of paragraphs about the history of these meteorites from a disabled site so I'll just copy instead of link to meteoritearticlesdotcom. Since they were known and found on/near the surface for so long - you'd think some THunting Midwesterners would have thought to dig deeper for them sooner than the last few years. Maybe technology was a factor. Sue

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Oct. 14, 2006, 11:42AM
Meteorite may point to an even larger find
By MARK CARREAU Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

After digging 18 inches down near the large mysterious target, the meteorite hunters instead discovered several inches of rusty steel cable, according to expert Steve Arnold.

"The whole thing could be cable, though that is weird for me to think. I just don't know," said Arnold, who reflected on his 15 years of prospecting for meteorites.

"Back in the middle to late 1800's as cowboys rode their horses across the prairie in what is now Kiowa County, they came across from time to time heavy black rocks scattered across the buffalo grass. There were no other such stones found else where so the black stones were a bit out of place. The stones were often used for weight lifting  and shot-put demonstrations. At the end of the nineteenth century Frank Kimberly brought his wife Mary to homestead the area. One of the first things she noticed was the black rusty rocks that were about in the area. She informed her husband that the rocks were not ordinary but rather meteorites and began to keep a pile of them near the house they had  made. She was often laughed at and kidded as the pile grew larger. The rocks were considered somewhat useful for a number of chores that the locals had in the area as no other rocks were around.

As a child in Iowa she and her class were taken to a railroad station to view a great meteorite in transport to an eastern museum. The experience was one she had not forgotten and how the meteorite had looked to her when she was quite young. As Frank plowed the prairie ground he would often plough up new specimens and Mary would drag them back to the pile, although this was beginning to become an irritation to him as the pile grew. Mary wrote a number of letters to various places in hopes of finding someone that might be interested in her meteorites. Finally after five years a Dr. F.W. Cragen at Washburn College in Kansas agreed to look at the collection. When he arrived he was amazed and delighted at the pile of specimens and paid her several hundred dollars for the better half of the specimens. This sell was enough to buy a neighboring property where more of the specimens were found. As word got out other scientists followed Dr. Cragen's lead and came to buy specimens and a brisk market was generated for a number of years. Frank had quickly changed his tune after the first sell his wife had made, and went out prospecting on a more regular basis. Over a ton and a half had been sold just past the turn of the century by the Kimberly's Their place was known as the Kansas Meteorite Farm."


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Posted on Mon, Oct. 16, 2006

AP CENTERPIECE: Scientists find unusual meteorite in Kansas field

ROXANA HEGEMAN  Associated Press

GREENSBURG, Kan. - Scientists located a rare meteorite in a Kansas wheat field thanks to new ground penetrating radar technology that some day might be used on Mars.

The dig Monday was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find, with researchers painstakingly using brushes and hand tools in order to preserve evidence of the impact trail and to date the event of the meteorite strike. Soil samples were also bagged and tagged, and organic material preserved for dating purposes. . . . .

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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2006, 08:02:58 am »
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I didn't catch that this was a different article until this a.m. So I'm wondering if he found some cable at 18 inches, why he'd call out the ground penetrating folks. I can understand his excitement and all - he surely was getting reading of nickel on his detector.   


These detectors are not able to distinguish between the various metals. At least not at that depth.

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