Gem Stones from Space; Palladot™
A litte info on the coolest, rarest gemstones on the planet (and they are not even from this planet).
The Coffeyville Kansas meteorite. The finders of this meteorite were certain after seeing Geoff and me on TV that their rock was a meteorite. They sent in a piece, and they were right. This blog is part about the story and part a little sales pitch. If you might like to buy one, check out the listing on my SteveArnoldMeteorites fan page at Facebook.
Blog #6
This was the story that appeared in column 1 on the front page of the L.A. Times. For weeks wild fires had been burning around Los Angeles, and I was amazed this meteorite story made it to press when it did.
Reporter Nicolas Riccardi did a great job on it, and was a key domino in the events that led to our TV series. LMNO’s Executive Producer Ruth Riven was reading her newspaper one morning, saw the story, and thought to herself “Meteorite Hunting, hmm, I wonder if that could make for a good Reality TV show?”
Edit: 12/27/2010: It has come to my attention that when I first posted this post on 10/17/10, in my rush to load up a bunch of posts quickly to the blog site (to give you viewers more content to read) I made a mistake. Upon further review, I must have mistaken Ruth’s fist contact with me by email on 11/27/2007 as being the SAME day as the story came out in the paper exactly one month earlier on 10./27/2007. In any case, after Ruth read the story in the L.A. Times, she emailed me asking for contact information, which I responded to on Dec. 1, 2007. Subsequently, she called me after I gave her my phone number and in the conversation she asked me if I had ever considered doing a TV show, which ultimately led to what is now the “Meteorite Men” on the Science Channel.
Blog #5
American Chopper’s Paul Sr. and his Orange County Choppers team built us a really cool motorcycle to help us hunt for meteorites. Meeting the guys at OCC was one of the highlights of my life. It would have been enough just to get a cool bike, but to get to be part their show made the event more than anyone could ask for. Yet in the end, what I appreciated the most was being able to get an inside look at the huge business that Paul Sr. built starting only a few years ago working out of his basement.
Blog #4
Prior to the Meteorite Men TV series, this was my favorite TV spot. We were honored to be part of the WIRED Science pilot episode, and then when the series was picked up, the segment was repeated on their second episode. Adam Rogers was really great to work with. He added an intellectual and entertaining spin to the story.
