Many meteorites fall throughout the year, and despite the fact that many are incinerated by the atmosphere, I would daresay the quantity of meteoric fragments arriving annually from above, exceeds the quantity of diamonds annually arriving from below, dug up from diamond mines. Of the number of "finds" which have been brought into the museum for my judging, I have found them all to be either basaltic igneous rock or slag, which has that "fired" look, igniting those meteoric hopes. Not long ago, one man came in, visibly concealing something under his shirt. He felt certain that it was a meteorite, and he feared that if it's presence were known, someone would attempt to take it from him, so he felt compelled to conceal it so securely within his personal space. Read more