Where to find meteorites in wyoming

For more than 20 years, Garcia has traveled to places in the middle of nowhere and studied flecks, specks and spots in thousands of rocks — all to find meteorites that are often the size of walnuts, and sometimes worth the same. It's not all walnuts, though; sometimes there's a diamond. Every now and again something so special will fall from the sky that everyone wants a piece of it.

Caroline Smith, a curator from the Natural History Museum in London, got the biggest piece of martian meteorite, named Tissint. It's almost as if it was knocked off Mars yesterday, it's so fresh," she says. Smith refused to say how much the museum paid for the 1. It's not uncommon for Garcia to spend days in the sun, poking at rocks with golf clubs, only to go home empty-handed.

But this is what makes meteorite hunters feel connected to something bigger, something other-worldly. Scientists are not meteorite hunters, they're scientists," he says. You know we give them extra-terrestrial material to study, where without met hunters we would need a ship and a whole bunch of fuel to retrieve it. Whether it's to study, display, or just hold for a little while, who wouldn't want their very own piece of the stars?

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Every so often, pieces of heaven crash into Earth. The Best Hunting Grounds One of Garcia's favorite spots to go meteorite hunting is an enormous dry lake bed in southern Arizona. Willow Creek , discovered in , Albin Palasite , discovered in , Bear Lodge , discovered in , Clareton, discovered in , 2. Pine Bluffs , discovered in , 5. Hawk Springs , discovered in , Hat Creek, discovered in , Lusk, discovered in , 1.

Torrington , discovered in , 9. Waltman, discovered in , Albin Stone , discovered in , 33 pounds. Rock Springs , discovered in , 1. Hyattville, discovered in , And finally, a crater without an actual meteorite inside of it.

It's thought that a huge meteorite struck Wyoming in this location nearly million years ago.