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**Ransom** lop guest User ID: 84910 05-04-2012 01:10 AM

This was taken a couple of hours ago.
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Here's what they're doing.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A group of scientists took to the skies in a blimp Thursday in search of meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month.

It's the latest hunt for extraterrestrial fragments from the April 22 explosion that was witnessed over a swath of Northern California and Nevada.

Treasure hunters have swarmed the Sierra Nevada foothills over the past two weeks, snatching up pieces of meteorites. Most of the recovered space rocks have been tiny, with the largest weighing in at 19 grams, or the weight of one AA battery.

Researchers from NASA and the nonprofit SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., were on the lookout for larger fragments. After a brief weather delay, they took off from a Sacramento airfield aboard a blimp outfitted with sensors and cameras.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/03/4463640...-look.html

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**noteye** · **noteye** What Went Wrong User ID: 94441 05-04-2012 01:23 AM **Posts: 3,099**

They must have one hell of a metal detector. Wow

**Ransom** lop guest User ID: 84910 05-04-2012 01:33 AM

noteye Wrote:

They must have one hell of a metal detector. Wow

Ya, lots of money behind those kinds of things.

**noteye** · **noteye** What Went Wrong User ID: 94441 05-04-2012 01:39 AM **Posts: 3,099**

I was going to take up meteorite hunting, but now I don't stand a chance. Blimps aren't cheap

**Ransom_** lop guest User ID: 84910 05-04-2012 03:38 AM

noteye Wrote:

I was going to take up meteorite hunting, but now I don't stand a chance. Blimps aren't cheap

Nope... They just had it up on the news, I guess it's a Zeppelin. There are only 2 flying in the world. One is in Germany, the other in California, US.