Meteorite Men

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Meteorite hunters Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkin
GenreDocumentary
Reality
Presented bySteve Arnold
Geoffrey Notkin
Template:Pluralize from text of originUnited States
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from textEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes23 (including pilot)
Production
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ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from textSonya Gay Bourn
Ruth Rivin
Kathy Williamson
Bob Melisso
James Rowley
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  • Randall Love
  • German Abarca
  • Tim Murphy
  • Dave Marlin
Running time45–48 minutes
Original release
NetworkScience Channel
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Meteorite Men is a documentary reality television series featuring meteorite hunters Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold. The pilot episode premiered on May 10, 2009. The full first season began on January 20, 2010, on the Science Channel. The second season premiered November 2, 2010, and the third season began November 28, 2011. Professors and scientists at prominent universities including UCLA, ASU, UA, Edmonton, and other institutions, including NASA's Johnson Space Center, are featured.

Summary

The show follows two meteorite hunters, Steve Arnold and Geoffrey Notkin, as they travel around the world scouring the Earth's surface for meteorites.

Arnold's background lies primarily in business,[1] while Notkin is a passionate collector and science writer.[2] In the pilot episode of Meteorite Men, Notkin and Arnold travel to the farmlands of Brenham, Kansas, where Arnold located and recovered the largest oriented pallasite ever found.[3]

Meteorite Men has won two bronze Telly Awards. The show has also spawned a modern-day "gold rush" as thousands of amateur meteorite hunters now scour the globe each year in search of meteorites.[4]

Some of the specimens found on the show were sold to collectors, while others were donated to university collections.

Notable finds

The World's Largest Oriented Pallasite

The Meteorite Men pilot was filmed at a strewn field in Brenham, Kansas at the same location where in October 2005, Arnold and geologist Philip Mani had located and recovered the largest oriented pallasite ever found.[5] To find the meteorite, Arnold used a metal detector he created himself and a unique mapping technique.[6]

The 650 kg pallasite was put up for auction in April 2016[7] and was exhibited at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show in 2006[8] and was also on display at:[7]

  • The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (2006)
  • The Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas (2006 & 2007)
  • Kansas City Union Station (2007)
  • Center for Earth & Space Science Center in Tyler, Texas (2011)
  • U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Space Mania, Tel Aviv, Israel (2013)
  • Space Center Houston (NASA) (2015)

Morasko, Poland

In 2011, Arnold and Notkin found two irons, weighing approximately 544 grams (0.544 kg) and 34 kilograms (34,000 g), at 30 centimetres (0.98 ft) and 156 centimetres (5.12 ft) deep, respectively, while filming Episode 1 of Season 3 of Meteorite Men in the Morasko Meteorite Nature Reserve in Poland.[9] The discovery of these specimens below the depth of previously recorded finds suggested that further, more detailed surveys should be conducted with improved metal detecting equipment. Furthermore, the larger specimen was found embedded in a Miocene clay, which proves that it fell at that exact spot and was not transported by glaciers, disproving an earlier theory.

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

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Season 2 (2010)

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Season 3 (2011–12)

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Cultural impact

Meteorite Men has been cited as a possible reason behind the spike in interest regarding meteorites and meteorite hunting in the early 2010s. Dr. Laurence Garvie of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University has stated that after his appearance on the show, he and his colleagues received about a half-dozen boxes of rocks each week from viewers who believed they had found a meteorite.[10]

The Sterley pallasite

In approximately 1950, a farmer came across a 1,724.8 gram mass while plowing a field. The specimen, which displayed regmaglypts and fusion crust, was not fully classified until 2012, when the son of the finder, after watching Meteorite Men, took the specimen to Dr. Laurence Garvie at the Center for Meteorite Studies, ASU, for further analysis.[11] The entire mass was then acquired by Ruben Garcia of Mr. Meteorite and Geoffrey Notkin of Aerolite Meteorites and Meteorite Men.[12]

Steve Curry incident

In 2012, Detective Ryan Piotrowski of the Grand Junction Police Department charged Steve Curry with misdemeanor theft and fraud for selling false meteorites. Piotrowski had seen Meteorite Men and became intrigued by the case when it landed on his sergeant's desk.[13]

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vastag, Brian (December 19, 2011). "One of TV's Meteorite Men describes team's hunt for treasure from outer space". Washington Post. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shepard, Michael (2016). Asterpods. Cambridge University Press. p. 96. ISBN 9781107061446.
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  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Paynter, Ben. "The Meteor Farmer". Wired. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Meteorites (PDF). Christie's. April 20, 2016. p. 58. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Meteorite People". Meteorite Times Magazine. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Karwowski, Lukasz; Pilski, Andrzej S.; Muszynkski, Andrzrej; Arnold, Steve; Notkin, Geoffrey; Gurdziel, Agnieszka (2011). "New Finds in the Morasko Meteorite Preserve, Poland". Meteorites. 1 (1): 21–28. doi:10.5277/met110103.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heide, Dana (September 15, 2016). "Scientists: No, the Rock You Found Is Not A Meteorite". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sterley". The Meteoritical Bulletin. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Notkin, Geoffrey; Garvie, Laurence; Wasson, John; Grossman, Jeff; Garcia, Ruben (2013). The Sterley Pallasite (First ed.). Stanegate Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-9847548-5-4.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Borrell, Brendan (June 25, 2018). "The Rock That Fell to Earth". The Verge. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
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