"Meteorite Men" come to TCU

Fort Worth, TX

3/22/2010

Hosts of Science Channel’s “Meteorite Men,” Steve Arnold and Geoffrey Notkin, will speak at TCU on Saturday, April 10 at 3 p.m. in TCU’s Sid Richardson Physical Sciences Building, Lecture Hall 1.   Arnold and Notkin will share their experiences of searching the world for meteorites.  The talk will be followed by an autograph session and the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery will be open for visitors to have close encounters with meteorites.

The event is free and open to the public, reservation required.  To RSVP, contact Teresa Moss at t.moss@tcu.edu or 817-257-6277.

About “Meteorite Men”
“Meteorite Men” airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST on the Science Channel. Hosts Steve Arnold and Geoffrey Notkin 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. “Meteorite Men” viewers get a firsthand look at the unique science of meteorite hunting.

Steve Arnold is a professional meteorite hunter and entrepreneur. Since 1992 Arnold has made a career of selling, trading, and brokering meteorites, and worked with many prominent museum curators, scientists and private collectors to help them enhance meteorite collections.

Geoff Notkin is a professional meteorite hunter, science writer and photographer. He has traveled to more than 40 countries and some of the world's most remote locations including Chile's Atacama Desert, Iceland, England, Mexico and the Middle East in search of elusive and valuable space rocks.

To read more about the hosts and for more information on “Meteorite Men,” please visit http://www.meteoritemen.com