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A Texas geologist alleges a Missouri State geology professor libeled and defamed him in a News-Leader guest column criticising the October find of a 154-pound Brenham meteorite fragment in a Kansas wheat field.
Philip C. Mani, along with Brenham Meteorite Co. Ltd., claim in a lawsuit filed Monday in Greene County Circuit Court that Kevin Evans disparaged them and their findings by referring to them as "meteorite hunters."

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Essam Heggy took a few steps, peering into the screen of a blue gadget cradled in his arms, while Buster Wilson shuffled a few feet ahead, dragging an orange box along the ground.
They shifted a couple feet over and started anew on an adjacent plot of dirt. Wilson again pulled the orange box, actually an antenna transmitting waves into the soil below. Heggy, meanwhile, monitored the blue appliance, which offered a rough physical depiction of what the waves were running into under the ground.
The scene, which took place Friday, was in Kiowa County, but it's a dress rehearsal for Mars. Heggy, a planetary scientist with the NASA-funded Lunar Planetary Institute in Houston, is in Kiowa County with a team to test the device, a ground-penetrating radar, for its planned use on a rover set to go to the Red Planet in 2011.

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At 154 pounds, it wasn't the biggest meteorite ever found, not by a long shot.
But that didn't dim the celebration Monday for the contingent of archeologists and others on hand from the Houston Museum of Natural Science to dislodge the space rock from its Kiowa County resting spot for the last millennium or so.

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"More than 15,000 pounds of meteorites have been recovered from the Brenham fall, with about a third of them found by the two men in the past year, Mani said. About three dozen meteorites have been pulled from the field by their Brenham Meteorite Co.
This week's find will end up as part of a new exhibit on comets, meteors, and asteroids at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The museum will pay about $50,000 for it."

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Scientists located a rare meteorite in a Kansas wheat field thanks to new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might be used on Mars.
The dig Monday was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find, with researchers painstakingly using brushes and hand tools to preserve evidence of the impact trail and to date the event of the meteorite strike. Soil samples also were bagged and tagged and organic material preserved for dating purposes.

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Scientists have located another meteorite piece in a Kansas.
The new meteorite weighs 154 lbs and was buried 4 feet below the ground. The site is only about a quarter of a mile from where Steve Arnold and Philip Mani had found the record breaking pallasite meteorite a year ago.
Soil samples were taken for dating purposes, but initial findings place the meteorite in Pleistocene layers (10,000 years ago). It had previously been thought the Brenham meteorite fall occurred 20,000 years ago.

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The object beneath a south-central Kansas farm field appears unlikely to be a meteorite, according to readings from special detection equipment taken Friday.

Meteorite hunters and scientists are using NASA-leased ground-penetrating radar devices to examine several spots on a farm between Haviland and Greensburg, Kan., where meteorites might be buried. A metal detector had earlier found something that measured 12 by 18 feet, but apparently it is not a single object

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Something big is buried beneath a south-central Kansas wheat field, according to Steve Arnold’s metal detector.
But could it be a meteorite, likely the largest ever found on Earth? Or could it be something as mundane as an old tractor?
Meteorite hunter Arnold and some scientists may know the answer today as they use special equipment to make images of the object, which Arnold’s metal detector measured at 12 feet by 18 feet and perhaps 7 feet below ground.

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A Kiowa County man said he may have found what could be one of the largest meteorites ever reported.

Don Stimpson said he and Paul Ross were searching Ross' field recently with a giant metal detector when the device made so much noise they thought they'd found an old culvert.
Instead, they began digging up pieces of meteorite.

"We dug and dug and brought up a 250-pound meteorite. And then we looked, and there was another one there. We dug it out and...well, wait a minute, there is more. We brought 1,500 pounds of meteorite from that one hole." - Don Stimpson, who had thought the field had been cleared of meteorites.

Experts said the find may be part of the Brenham meteorites, a collection of space rocks that fell to Earth in the present-day Brenham Township near Haviland about 20,000 years ago.
Many are among the most famous and sought-after in the world because they are pallasites. The extremely rare rocks contain crystals that look like stained glass when they are cut.
Wichita State University physics professor David Alexander, whose specialty is astronomy, said that if the pieces Stimpson and Ross found are from one meteorite, it would be the largest pallasite ever found.

Professional meteorite hunter Steve Arnold found the current record-holder, a 1,400-pound pallasite, about two miles southeast of Ross' land last fall.
Stimpson said he's still excavating the crater, which he said is covered in a thick layer of rust about 20 feet in diameter.

"We do not know how far it extends. I'll keep working on the site as long as I can and submit a scientific paper with my data when we are finished." - Don Stimpson

Meanwhile, the public can get a glimpse Saturday at what Stimpson and Ross found during Haviland's annual meteorite festival.

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