[meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:07:09 -0400
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http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20070802/NEWS/70802006

Man finds 1,800-pound meteorite

by Kurt Hildebrand, khildebrand at recordcourier.com
August 2, 2007

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A Gardnerville man said he found an 1,800-pound meteorite in Douglas County
using a device that detects radio signals from minerals.
Bob Yocum, 82, has been showing the find to folks since Friday when he found it
at an undisclosed location. Yocum said he detected it with his omni-range master
mineral locator.
The owner of Prospector & TreasureHunters Headquarters in Gardnerville said he
was operating his device two miles from the meteorite when he detected it.
Yocum said when he located the rock, a piece about the size of a pie plate was
visible above the ground.
It is not the first, nor the largest meteorite he has detected, but it is one of
the largest he?s dug up and hauled off.
?If I?d known how big it was when I started I might have left it there,? he
said. ?I started digging around it and found that it was three-feet long, 27
inches wide and 17 inches deep.?
Getting the rock into his pickup required two comealongs.
?I used a tow ribbon to pull it upright and then pulled it into the truck,? he
said. ?I left a groove 2 feet wide and 10 inches deep.?

Yocum said the largest meteorite he?s ever found is 10-12 tons, but that he
didn?t remove it.

He said striations on the side of the rock indicate it was a meteorite.

Yocum said the device works by sending out a low frequency radio signal that
matches the molecular pattern of the mineral being sought. When the mineral?s
found, the devices? antenna meet.

Yocum said he found out about the device from a prospector who lived in
Kernville, Calif. Yocum has lived in Northern Nevada for 17 years.
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