Recovery of fossil meteorites promises to expand our knowledge of the history of the solar system by allowing scientists to study meteorites which fell to Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Assistance in the search for fossil meteorites is sought from coal miners, mine managers, coal geologists, and all other coal mining professionals.

If you work at a coal operation which has tramp metal magnets on-line, set up a bin to save all materials caught on the magnets. Discard any obviously man-made objects and save any unknown metallic or rock-like particles. Send these objects to the Meteorite Recovery Project for analysis. A fossil meteorite may not look very much like a meteorite - it may be heavily corroded. Coal mining professionals are encouraged to send any and all unknown materials to:

The Meteorite Recovery Project,
c/o Penn State University Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum,
122 Steidle Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA