Meteorite Hunter
Meteorite hunter Roberto Vargas tracks fireballs on the internet and then goes to see if he can find them.
Usually I’m alerted that something has fallen or that people have seen a fireball through the American Meteor Society I book a flight, go to wherever it is, and then I start searching. I would just walk around and use my magnet cane to tap rocks. If they stick to the magnet and they have a black outer shell, they should be meteorites.
Vargas has over 500 meteorites in his personal collection.
See also The Meteorite Collector, The International Meteorite Market, and The Boomerang Meteor.
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There's a great chapter about this exact kind of thing in Transient & Strange, a great book for those that are science-y inclined: https://bookshop.org/p/books/transient-and-strange-notes-on-the-science-of-life-nell-greenfieldboyce/20059973
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