I only learned yesterday that this idea has acquired a life of its own. Yes, I guess I originated the idea, although I owe the idea of searching the Salt Flats for meteorites to VonDel Chamberlain. (Forgive me if I missed the spelling.) When I first searched the Salt Flats with Alpine Stringham and his family a couple of years ago, we found many terrestrial rocks "floating" on the salt crust. How and why they got there is still a mystery to me, but undoubtedly some geologist somewhere has an explanation? Anyway, it occurred to me that a simple experiment dropping rocks or bowling balls from the air would give us an idea what to expect and what to look for. Would an object the mass of a bowling ball penetrate the salt crust? What difference does standing water (which is present much of the year) make? I didn't think the idea was silly at all, but you all know what happens when the news media get a whiff of something unusual. I'll let y'all know when we plan our first "drop" and you can decide for yourselves if we're nuts or not. Kim A. Hyatt, AIA SL&A Architects 331 South Rio Grande, Suite 304 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 801.322.5550 x122