Randolph County North Carolina Meteorite

June 19th 2009 a amazing thing happend to a 15 year old boy from a medium sized county of  North Carolina. The young Corey Jannet was digging a cave for him and his friends to play in in his back yard, in Coleridge a fairly good town in Randolph County North Carolina, 4ft. in the ground Corey and his buddies hit a rock, it took all 4 of them to get it out of the ground, they run and show the Grandpa, Mike Snider, he told the young boys this may be a meteorite cause of the rusty look, Corey's Grandpa called an archeologist they came out to take a look, sure enough it was an meteorite, the archeologist told the boy and his Grandpa they were looking at a large peice of world history, Corey decided to sell it to the archeologist for his future ahead, the archeologist gave the young teenager an even 3 million dallors for the 5,838 year old meteorite that has always been in they're back yard. Many more Randolph County North Carolina meteorite findings  have accurd, the most recent one was in Asheboro, North Carolina on September, 27th 2009 but allover Randolph County all together 18 metoerites have been discoverd exspecially in Randelman and Asheboro North Carolina. Archeologist say their are an estimate of 10,000,000 meteorites in Randolph County, North Carolina. All together that is $15,729,830 worth of metorites in Randolph County, North Carolina. Here are some pictures of 5 meteorites discoverd in Randolph County North Carolina.

North Carolina HAS Discoverd Meteorites!

North Carolina has had many meteorite finds in the countys listed below,

Alexander County

Anson County

Bertie County

Brunswick County

Cadwell County

Caswell County

Cherokee County

Chowan County

Clay County

Cumberland County

Davison County

Davie County

Franklin County

Guilford County

Northhampton County

Orange County

Person County

Randolph County

Rockingham County

Scotland County

Stokes County

Watauga County

dates of meteorite have been spotted since the late 1700's in North Carolina some that have been found date  back to the year 1234 most meteorite has been found near the Davie County Area, the most exspensive meteorite sold in North Carolina was sold for 3.1 million dallors September, 14th 2005. Archeologist say 32% of the worlds Meteorite is in North Carolina, Only 54 meteorites have been found in North Carolina archeologist predict there is still 95,000,000  meteorites are still left in North Carolina witch leaves the total estimate of 28 Billion Dallors of meteorite to be left in the state. The most recent metorite in North Carolina was found January, 15th 2010 by  Trent Wills of Orange County North Carolina. Below are some pictures of the meteorites found in North Carolina.