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Geoffrey Notkin
Geoffrey starts the Birthday Bash celebration by showing a special "Meteorite Men" video created by the production team - it pretty much blew us all away - but what else would you expect from a room full of meteorite nerds?
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 447
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Geoffrey and Steve
At the end of the video we saw old pictures of Steve as a past all-American footballer and Geoff as a past long-haired punk rocker - scientists are still trying to determine why they are now teamed up looking for space rocks
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 477
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Steve Arnold & Steve Arnold
In a moment of real class - Steve Arnold of Meteorite Men presented Steve Arnold of Chicago with a "Steve Arnold of Chicago Meteorite Men" poster - a really cool thing to do - look closely at the picture to see the poster held by Steve
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 605
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Back to Geoffrey
Geoffrey at the microphone being Geoffrey - when he is not out finding little black rocks he could probably find a little side work in the future by taking over Simon's place on "American Idol"
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 420
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Harvey Award - Robert Ward
Robert shakes hands with Steve Arnold after the announcement of his Harvey Award - he has been on many important hunts over the last few years and he has also been a buyer of many meteorite artifacts
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 479
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Robert Ward
Robert makes his acceptance speech - he is holding his award which was a cool little base with a meteorite on top!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 867
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Harvey Award - Jim Strope
Jim Strope of "CatchaFallingStar.com" receives his Harvey Award - he has been a behind the scenes player in meteorite hunting and collecting for many years!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 478
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"Meteorite Men" Alpha Field Map
Steve Arnold finally shows everyone the map of the secret Alpha Location strewnfield - unfortunately the picture was a little too dark too see or photograph from my seat - hmmmm...
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 460
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"Meteorite Men" Alpha Field Photos
The second card was a photo of the actual Alpha Site strewnfield while they were searching it at night - they reported an encounter with a rattlesnake - this one was also to dark to see or photograph - a little bit suspect!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 509
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SKY BAR - Take Three
Another chance to find yourself in the crowd!
Date: 01/01/00
Views: 415
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Harvey Award - Jack Schrader
Jack was able to triangulate and find the Whetstone Mountains meteorite - a great achievement and one of the reasons for his Harvey Award
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 458
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Back to Geoffrey ... Again
This time Geoffrey is using two microphones - both his and Steve's - I think he was talking about Steve's wife Qynne Arnold - known as Mrs. Meteorite Hunter - she also won a Harvey Award!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 405
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Harvey Award - Dr. Svend Buhl
Svend has been a prolific meteorite hunter over the last decade - he received a Harvey Award for recognition of all his achievements in the meteorite field
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 659
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Dr. Svend Buhl
His website - niger-meteorite-recon.de - is an incredible learning resource as well as a great place to see his fantastic collection!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 576
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Lawrence of Arabia
As Geoff pointed out when giving Svend his award - this is the absolute best photograph ever taken of a meteorite hunter in the field - look at his head scarf blowing back in the desert wind - a modern day Lawrence of Arabia!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 550
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Harvey Award - Hopper the Dog
Ruben Garcia accepts a Harvey Award for Hopper the Dog who found one of the first meteorites right after the Ash Creek meteorite fall and brought it to the front porch of its owner's home - Ruben adopted the dog!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 654
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Tight Security
Professional Security Guard Mike Jensen stands behind Geoff to keep all the riff-raff in the audience away from our newest TV stars
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 552
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Watching out for Groupies
Professional Security Guard Bill Jensen watches carefully as TV star Steve Arnold signs an autograph for "Meteorite Men" groupie Leigh Anne DelRay
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 531
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Protecting the Talent
Security Guard Mike Jensen shows his superb protection skills as he holds back groupie Leigh Anne DelRay from getting to close to the Talent
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 468
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Harvey Award - Shauna Russell
The last Harvey Award of the night went to Shauna Russell who has been on her fair share of meteorite hunts recently - she continues to participate in the newest finds all over the world
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 519
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Shauna Russell
Shauna is the hunter who had several famous photos published on the web of her pointing to a meteorite in the Ash Creek strewnfield while laying in a pile of cow "business" - who cares? - you go girl!
Date: 02/09/10
Views: 462
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