Ready to go hunting.

[A. Grignon]

Thinking about looking for some meteorites around where I live. Saw one report in an old newspaper about one that people saw and later found the hole in the frozen lake it made.
Also read a report about one a guy had on his farm in the 1800's that weighed several tons.

Two questions ...... Are there better areas to look for meteorites or are they all over the world? AND...... Being that I live in Wisconsin and the area had glacial activity, would you think this would greaten my chances of finding one brought down from Canada thousands of years ago?

 

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[SilverSleuth]

Meteorites fall randomly all over the world. The problem is moisture & other terrestrial rocks that will look like meteorites. The midwest has many finds because of few terrestrial rocks and lots of farming. I've read that the glaciers may have concentrated meteorites. Farmers rocks piles are a good place to look. Possibly stone walls also.

 

[A. Grignon]

Thanks for the info! I guess I will have to keep my eyes open.

 

[UncleVinnys]

There are also places called "Strewn fields" where meteorites have been known to fall, and there is a much greater possibility of finding meteorites in these known area.

I thought about the glacier thing too, and I would guess you would have a much greater chance of finding them near glaciers too. One of the most productive methods of finding them is to go out on the snow in Antarctica, so I would think they'd be be found on top of the glacier, and subsequently, when it melts, it would end up in the debris field left by the melting glacier.

Good luck.

 

[extractor]

Ditto