December 20, 2005

Manitoba Man Finds Record Number of Meteorites

(Derek Erstelle of Winnipeg) ...used binoculars, a metal detector and a map that showed how glaciers melted during the last Ice Age to focus his most recent search .
There could be thousands of meteorites in Manitoba's Whiteshell area, near the province's southeastern border with Ontario...

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~It's harder to do than it sounds.
Would Russia also have dumping grounds for meteorites that fell during the last Ice Age? Western Europe being too developed since then to survey?

Posted by Cieciel at December 20, 2005 11:13 AM