> There are various people that are acitively hunting the strewn field. > This is done mostly at night with ATV's and metal detectors.
Is this for sure? :-) > John G. noted: There is also the possibility that some meteorite hunters > are still working in the strewn field even though it is now illegal. I´ve been at Meteor Crater for three times in the past 20 or so years, and I found ever more increasing restrictions, as time went by. When I was there in 1992, I could still make a complete roundtrip hike of the rim (...though signs said something like "forbidden" even way back then - well, I admit, a little red in the face now, I did not care, and they did not do me any harm - nothing but good luck, maybe..). And when I returned a few years later, the signs seemed to be much more threatening, clear and distinct, as far as I remember, so I did not give it another try, both for circling the crater at the rim or performing any searches nearby. But I have heard of people searching the area, and the "Barringer police" or whatever they may be called (I really don´t know) very carefully seems to observe everything that is being performed there. Is this so, or do I have a wrong impression, which may be outdated by now? Don´t they observe the area at night? [...just to get back to the top of my mail..] > Arizona is an open grazing state and the property is checkerboard with > state and private land blocks....or at least from my understanding. Has > anyone tried to get a permit to search the state properties? Hopping from one state square of the checkerboard to the other state square crosstrackwise, with the help from a GPS reading, avoiding the private squares? :-) Almost unbelievable. Dear Arizonian meteorite folks on this list: some more light shed on this would be welcome... Best regards, Alex Berlin/Germany ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
