Meteorite Men
Hunt Locations
Find out where the Meteorite Men are headed on their search for fallen treasure. There is no mountain too tall, no dry lake bed too deep and no desert too harsh to keep these guys from their mission.
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Episode 1
Premiered: Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 9 p.m. E/P
Alpha, Kansas -- Geoff and Steve return to their top-secret location in eastern Kansas where a rare pallasite meteorite contains extraordinary gem-quality olivine crystals.
Episode 2
Premiered: Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 9 p.m. E/P
Imilac, Chile -- Located in Chile's Atacama Desert, the Imilac strewn field was the first place Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold hunted together, some 13 years ago. With almost 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) of meteorites found, Imilac is the site of the third-largest pallasite ever recovered and one of the only areas in the world littered with space rocks.
Vaca Muerta, Chile -- Translated as "Dead Cow" in English, the Vaca Muerta strewn field is located near the small town of Taltal in the Atacama Desert. This area contains the rarest of all meteorites, the mesosiderite.
Episode 3
Premiered: Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 9 p.m. E/P
Monturaqui, Chile -- This 1,509-foot-diameter (460-meter-diameter) crater is one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on the planet. Measuring 34 meters (112 feet) deep, the Monturaqui crater is often compared with the Bonneville crater on Mars.
San Juan, Chile -- In the vast and arid Atacama Desert, San Juan is a newly discovered meteorite gold mine, where numerous different meteorites have been recovered, including the coveted carbonaceous chondrite.
Episode 4
Premiered: Tuesday, Nov. 23, at 9 p.m. E/P
Mifflin, Wisconsin -- On April 14, 2010, a fireball lit up the night sky. The sonic boom was heard for miles. As it was perhaps the most publicized meteorite fall in history, swarms of meteorite hunters flooded the scene in hopes of securing a piece of this famed fireball.
Episode 5
Premiered: Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 9 p.m. E/P
Dugway , Utah -- On Nov. 18, 2009, a fireball streaked across the midnight sky over western Utah. Using Doppler radar and eyewitness testimony, the Meteorite Men track the strewn field down to Dugway Military Base. Military officials grant Geoff and Steve exclusive access to the base's dangerous ammunitions-testing grounds to search for remnants of the majestic fireball.
Episode 6
Premiered: Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 9 p.m. E/P
Muonionalusta, Sweden -- With a terrestrial age estimated at more than 800,000 years old, the Muonionalusta meteorites have endured thousands of years' worth of glaciations and melting periods. As a result, thawing ice sheets have migrated the meteorites miles from their original impact site, making Muonionalusta among the largest and most challenging strewn fields on the planet.
Episode 7
Premiered: Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 9 p.m. E/P
Henbury, Australia -- The Henbury meteorite strewn field consists of 12 craters that stretch across central Australia's outback. This engraved record of an ancient meteorite shower 4,700 years ago served as the inspiration for Aboriginal folklore and a shadow of dark superstition.
Episode 8
Premiered: Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 9 p.m. E/P
Mundrabilla, Australia -- Located in the desolate and dangerous Nullarbor Plains, the Mundrabilla iron meteorites are known for their zoomorphic shapes. Roughly 700,000 years ago, the massive meteoroid showered along a strewn field more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) long. The largest masses, which tipped the scales at 16 tons and 6 tons, were recovered in 1966.
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