Using ground-penetrating radar, a team of scientists from Houston Museum of Natural Science, Johnson Space Center's Lunar and Planetary Institute, the Rice Space Institute at Rice University and George Observatory in Houston have located a 154-pound meteorite buried below a Kansas wheat field.

The meteorite strike proved to be relatively recent, with recent, to those used to thinking in geological time, meaning somewhere around 10,000 years ago.

The object they dug out of the ground was rare in other ways too. It was a pallasite meteorite made up of crystals embedded in iron. Only 1 percent of meteorites found have this peculiar makeup.

According to Yahoo, the hope is that the technique used to pin-point the find can later be used to locate finds and, not least, water in the soils of Mars.

Brenham field, where the find was made, was actually first discovered in 1882. And Scientists, beside having recovered north of 15,000 individual fragments from the area, have since traced pieces of the shower as far away as Indian mounds in Ohio, indicating the meteorites were traded as pieces of jewelry and ceremonial artifacts far back in history.

Now all they need to do is find an octagonal key of a metal alloy of unknown origin and a small craft, capable of holding a youngish child. They might consider running their radar over to a little place in the vicinity called Smallville.