SEATTLE (AP) — A chance meeting between a pair of treasure-hunting brothers and a geology professor affiliated with University of Washington has led to the discovery of some the most extraordinary and valuable meteorites in history.
The Seattle Times (http://is.gd/WSXS83 ) calls University of Washington geochemistTony Irving the go-to man in the world of meteorites
The Australian-born scientist spent his early career working with lunar fragments from the Apollo missions. Then he returned to studying earthly matters. But a chance meeting brought him full-circle.
In the late 1990s, two adventurous computer entrepreneurs with a passion for metal-detecting and gold-panning brought Irving a strange rock. They thought they’d stumbled upon material from space.
