If you ever held a meteorite in hand, can consider yourself the happy person, you touched the extraterrestrial worlds. And as the nobility, perhaps, hundreds years ago on other planet someone's hand also squeezed this splinter. If in your life there was no such event yet, but you passionately wish to touch a piece of the unknown world, then it is not so difficult.
It is required to you
- - Internet
- - compass.
Instruction
1. For a start make sure that you precisely imagine subject to your search. Attentively consider photos of meteorites which on the Internet a huge number. Depending on their structure and a ratio of elements of which the meteorite consists the celestial bodies can look differently. It is desirable that you printed out these photos and took them when you move off in searches.
2. If you just want to look at a meteorite, go to the famous place of falling. In this case you should look for only the guide. The area Goba located in South West Africa can be such place. The meteorite which fell there weighs 16 tons therefore scientists, having hardly broken away a sample for a research, left the heavenly wanderer to lie where it fell.
3. To find a meteorite independently, arm with a compass. One of the main signs of the extraterrestrial nature of a meteorite – its magnetization. If you brought the device to a stone, and the magnetic needle deviates the North, before you a meteorite.
4. Listen to a talk of local. If your grandmother living in the village told you as at dawn on the sky the spark flew by and fell on the fringe of the forest, do not wave away from it, it is similar to the description of falling of a meteorite. Pay also attention to stories of local community about a meeting with the UFO. Ignorant inhabitants could also take the falling meteorite for newcomers.
5. Often meteorites find in mines, at excavation of ditches, plowing of fields, on mines and at laying of holes. If you dream to find the heavenly guest, visit places where excavation is conducted, certainly, observing at the same time safety measures.
6. If you found a stone, and you have a suspicion that before you a meteorite, attentively examine it. The stone meteorite will be covered with the black-brown crust formed as a result of melting. Iron meteorites will have such crust with a bluish outflow. Ledges on meteorites are usually maleficiated.
7. Meteorites, long time lying in the earth, can not have a crust any more. Nevertheless, if you address the expert, he investigates your find and will report whether the extraterrestrial origin has the stone found you.