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It makes me sick to write this but ....

Back in about '80 '81 i found a 76 pounder, iron meteorite while searching for them at the Odessa Texas Crater, the friend i was with, David, knew a friend of a friend, who was a Geo-something-or-another. Aint seen it since.

DANG !

WOw! That is kool! How did you get it out??

I have a 'piece' of a meteorite (yes, I bought it on eBay) I also bought a fulgurite (it's a tube of fused sand created when lightening hits). Neat little conversation pieces!

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I also bought a fulgurite

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I've seen them, but don't have one. VERY cool.

Saw a program on TV once where they were trying to create a 'man made' one. They had some small success but only got a good one by using lightning rods.

Actually it was laying on the side of the road going into the crater, a road grater had pushed it to the side.

I was just a kid then, working in the oil patch, and had a motorcycle.

Use to go out to a little state park outside of Odessa and look for fossils, remember finding about 4 or 5 vertabre still fused together, probably dolphin. I hid them under a rock ledge and never returned.

One day was going to Big Spring Tx, stopped to take a whizz behind this rock as big as a big screen TV, maybe 4 feet across, noticed that the rock seemed to have layers on top, checked it out and it was a very large fossilized claim shell embedded in the top of it.

That kind of stuff is all over, its just that in a desert with no ground cover its much easier to find.

I live in Patrick County Virginia now and a few miles from me is a park called Fairy Stone, the name is from these cyristilized <-- Hooked on Phonics =) rocks that look like crosses. The only thing i have ever found on ebay about them are early post cards from the park.

Yep, i thought about that too... dont know much about rocks tho .. cept the ones rattling around in my head.

That must have been very interesting, Wiley! I don't think I would know one if it had a name emblazened on it!