Morning in the middle
of the Brenham strewn field

Early morning and Steve
calibrates the detector

Steve Arnold fires up his ATV.
Note meteorite on the luggage rack

Most targets were dug by hand

Scrap dug up while hunting included wagon wheels and plow blades

The back hoe is called in to
excavate a possible meteorite

Uncovering the largest
North American pallasite

Extraterrestrial treasure fully revealed

The backhoe hoists the 3/4 ton meteorites out of a seven-foot hole

Mr. and Mrs. Binford
(the landowners), with Steve

Heat shield revealed, this is the world's largest oriented pallasite

Detail of crystals in
an exposed olivine pocket

A similar Brenham specimen,
cut and polished

An iron (siderite) slice from another Brenham specimen

Wichita schoolchildren with pallasite at the Afton Observatory

Photographs by Phil Mani, Steve Arnold, Qynne Arnold, Geoffrey Notkin. All rights reserved.