Wanted: Free Meteorite

I'd like to find a meteorite. I don't want to buy one. I just want to find one and bring it home.

How does one go about doing this? Are they distributed evenly over the surface of the planet, or are there places where they are more commonly found?

May help. Apparently a high percentage of suspected meteorites turn out not to be one.

http://meteorite-identification.com/

Quote: Ayecarumba

I'd like to find a meteorite. I don't want to buy one. I just want to find one and bring it home.

How does one go about doing this? Are they distributed evenly over the surface of the planet, or are there places where they are more commonly found?

There was a reality series on cable following a couple of meteorite hunters
There is good money in this
I found the show very interesting
Got to have a metal detector, magnet and knife
Metal detector to find it, large knife to dig it out, magnet to make sure its iron

http://meteoritemen.com/

Quote: rxwine

May help. Apparently a high percentage of suspected meteorites turn out not to be one.

http://meteorite-identification.com/

Thanks rxwine! Interesting how many "meteorWrongs" are out there.

On behalf of our Brotherly Gambler I shall post the truth about these non-existent so-called meteorites: Heaven is perfect therefore nothing falls from it, despite the claims of ignorant peasants.

Aristotle denied the possibility of stones falling from the sky.

Issac Newton and Anton Lavosier said stones did not fall from the sky because there are no stones in the sky.

The most world-wide acclaimed source of scientific knowledge, the French Academy of Science, declared that stones did not fall from the sky and that it would continue to escort ignorant farmers who brought in such stones out the doors immediately. Museums around the world shamefully discarded their collections so that the museums would not be seen as ignorant believers of superstition in the face of developments in the Age of Reason that as anit-meteorite Immanual Kant said Men of Faith and Men of Science were united in disbelieving such nonsense.

That is why there are no examples of meteors that predate 1790.

Scientific perceptions did not begin to change until a massive meteor shower of over 2000 rocks fell in a French farming village in 1803.

Quote: Ayecarumba

How does one go about doing this? Are they distributed evenly over the surface of the planet, or are there places where they are more commonly found?

Antarctica. They stand out on the ice.

Otherwise, they fall randomly all over the place. Some may bury themselves if they were big enough to begin with. others may wind up buried after eons, or fall into a river, lake or ocean, just like any other rock.

But in the first place, would you recognize a meteorite if you saw one?