Thanks to the willingness of a brave volunteer, Kane demonstrated that local anesthesia was a viable, and even preferable, alternative. But I said there were two facts that made the surgery unique. The second is the patient. The courageous candidate for surgery by Dr. Kane was Dr. Kane. Will go anywhere . . . in Basingstoke.
Meteors fall into Earth's atmosphere over every spot on the planet.
However, there is one place that's far better than anywhere else to find the meteorites that make it all the way to the ground. That place is a windswept field of ice near the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. There are tons of them. Meteorites fall into the snow all across Antarctica, then sink down until they hit a layer of solid ice. That ice flows slowly across the continent, to certain places where ice-buried mountains push it up.