Meteor Crator found

[dowser]

I located a Meteor Crator while Dowsing. It's six feet deep and twelve feet circumfrence. It's hiddin in a Big hardwoods in Northern Michigan, it can be seen through the trees looking down on Google Earth. I was wondering who to report it to, if anyones interested. The rock is still in it but down a way, and two giant Maple trees are growing out the bottom of it. The pieces around the top are seven foot down, and it's in National forest, unretrievable. Do any scientists investigate?

 

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[golden ray]

If you do notify the forest service about it. DO NOT mention you were out there
with a metal detector ( if you were ?) And also a 100 questions as to 'why were you there'.
'what were you doing', 'how do you know the depth?', 'did you do any digging?', Etc, Etc,

 

[aarthrj3811]

Hey dowser...I found one on Indian Land...I call the College and a week later it was gone...Art

 

[Charl]

Photograph some of the pieces. That's not illegal. Send the photos, with description of find circumstances to a number of meteorite dealers. If there's any chance based on photos, you will hear from a dealer a lot sooner then a scientist. Dealers/Hunters/serious collectors will know how to proceed from there through their contacts. Don't remove any. Photograph the crater as well! That's important. It may not be an impact crater, you want to marshall all the visual evidence you can, and see if those who hunt these things for a living will feel it is a very good possibility. If so, they will make sure the right scientists/government agencies are alerted to it for further investigation on the ground.

 

[dowser]

Haven't dug anything, but I know it's a crator for fact. Called a couple #'s noone really cares. No big deal..

 

[Alex Burke]

I care dowser lol, why not dig it yourself is the question, they are valuable. Did you use your minelab detector to try and locate it? If you post the Google earth kml I'm sure someone will check it out.

 

[F2 Hunter 28146]

I found one just sitting next to a tree. Who knows how long it had been there. Took me forever to find out what it was. Till one day I worked with a man at Lowe's hardware who was a retired Geologist. He too one look at it and said.... see those up and down side to side lines on the flat part of this rock? I said yeah... he said what you have is a meteor and THAT flat spot was where it impacted when it hit the ground.

!!! SWEET !!!

(It pretty much the size of a baseball)

 

[Alex Burke]

I found one just sitting next to a tree. Who knows how long it had been there. Took me forever to find out what it was. Till one day I worked with a man at Lowe's hardware who was a retired Geologist. He too one look at it and said.... see those up and down side to side lines on the flat part of this rock? I said yeah... he said what you have is a meteor and THAT flat spot was where it impacted when it hit the ground.

!!! SWEET !!!

(It pretty much the size of a baseball)

Wow is it heavy?

 

[Rawhide]

Im reading through old post and just love this one. Bringing it back from the dead.

 

[TerryC]

I found one just sitting next to a tree. Who knows how long it had been there. Took me forever to find out what it was. Till one day I worked with a man at Lowe's hardware who was a retired Geologist. He too one look at it and said.... see those up and down side to side lines on the flat part of this rock? I said yeah... he said what you have is a meteor and THAT flat spot was where it impacted when it hit the ground.

!!! SWEET !!!

(It pretty much the size of a baseball)

FLAT SPOT on a meteorite.... from hitting the ground? Hmmm. Why would it flatten out? Even if the meteorite was traveling fast enough on impact to cause damage, I have never heard of one FLATTENING OUT on impact. Stones may shatter, but irons flatten? Never! TTC

 

[Jason in Enid]

I located a Meteor Crator while Dowsing. It's six feet deep and twelve feet circumfrence. It's hiddin in a Big hardwoods in Northern Michigan, it can be seen through the trees looking down on Google Earth. I was wondering who to report it to, if anyones interested. The rock is still in it but down a way, and two giant Maple trees are growing out the bottom of it. The pieces around the top are seven foot down, and it's in National forest, unretrievable. Do any scientists investigate?

Why is it unretrievable?

MINERAL, ROCK COLLECTING AND METAL DETECTING ON THE
NATIONAL FORESTS

1
It is Forest Service policy that the recreational use of metal detectors and the collection of
rocks and mineral samples are allowed on the National Forests. Generally, most of the
National Forests are open to recreational mineral and rock collecting, gold panning and
prospecting using a metal detector. This low impact, casual activity usually does not
require any authorization.

Thats from their own website: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5261774.pdf