Meteorite Men

“Meteorite Men” is an award-winning adventure/science series on Science Channel starring long-time friends, expedition partners, and meteorite hunters Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold. Together Geoff and Steve hunt space rocks as a team. They share the same birthday as well a passion for adventure, traveling to the wild places, and hunting for extraterrestrial visitors from outer space. Join them on the adventure of a lifetime.

For thousands of years, meteorites have slammed into the earth’s surface. Finding these meteorites, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task. Like gold panning, once meteorites are detected and found they are worth tens of thousands of dollars depending on their visual aesthetic and size. These colourful characters, Geoff and Steve, travel the globe in search of meteorites as they embark on treasure hunts in remote locations around the world in order to explore the scientific and financial value of meteorites.

Notkin and Arnold have searched the world for remnants of meteorites for years. The duo uses inventive, cutting-edge technologies to detect these treasures from space as each are often buried over centuries by substantial amounts of dirt and sediment.

The series bring viewers to the farmlands of Brenham, Kansas as Notkin and Arnold searched for pieces of a large meteorite that fell to earth thousands of years ago. Brenham is considered a hot bed for meteorites – more have fallen in that area per square mile than anywhere else in the United States. Viewers got a firsthand look at the unique science of meteorite hunting when the team uncovered several large meteorite pieces using large metal detectors fashioned to ATVs and trucks.