For some people, finding a Meteorite is much more fun than owning it, and they find the search for meteorites an exciting pastime. Sometimes, this feeling of excitement, especially after finding the first meteorite, is so intense that the person may give up his whole life for a while and all his grief is to find another meteorite. In fact, in many of these cases, the mentioned person returns to his normal life after a while with disappointment; Because probably his first find was nothing but luck!

When a piece of Rock that enters the atmosphere is so big that it does not burn up due to friction, a part of it reaches the earth and appears as a burnt rock, which is called a "meteor". These objects mark the history of the solar system. They have each other. According to their composition, meteorites are divided into three groups: iron, Stone and iron-stone. Because of their scientific importance, one of the activities of amateur astronomers is finding meteorites.

Meteorites always fall on the earth in the same way, 4 meteorites fell on every square kilometer on the earth in the last 50 thousand years, after looking at statistics in the last 50 thousand years on the country of Iran, which has an area of 1.65 million square kilometers, 6.6 million meteorites. Small and big Stones have fallen. But these meteorites have undoubtedly been eroded in these years, or they have sunk underground, or they are hidden among the Rocks of the mountains, far from our sight, because due to the erosion, they have become the same shape as the earth rocks around them, or The weather has destroyed many of them.

Stony meteorites are more difficult to find because they look so similar to terrestrial rocks. The iron-stone type is also rare, in which stone and Metal are mixed together. Iron meteorites are mainly composed of iron and nickel, they are very little exposed to weathering. Therefore, it is more likely to find them. For meteorites, it doesn't matter where they fall and the probability of them landing is the same anywhere on the planet. It is said that at least one meteorite falls on every square kilometer of Earth's surface every million years. But searchers pay attention to some points to increase this chance. Meteorites (especially the iron type) are black and shiny due to burning. For this, searchers choose areas that have undergone less transformations and the ground has a clear surface and is free of black earth stones.

Meteorites can be found anywhere in the world. They may or may not be anywhere we think of; Because pieces of space rocks continuously hit the earth's surface. Of course, it should be said that most meteorites fall into the oceans and are lost in the deep waters. The vast majority of meteorites are never found, but are weathered by Earth's weather and become completely part of the Earth's crust. Other meteorites are also trapped in polar ice in Antarctica. This is where international teams of scientists from around the world have been collecting them for decades. In 2000, more than 20,000 meteorites were discovered in Antarctica, none of which are accessible to meteorite collectors.