As I sit at the computer pounding on the keys I can hear the Indiana Jones theme song running through my head.

I picture a handsome outdoor type, rugged yet sensitive, searching here, there and everywhere around Northeast Michigan in search of the elusive treasure. A beautiful female assistant never is far away, and more than once this hero has to lend a hand to assist her across a stream or up and over the rocks they are climbing.

"Bill, say Bill, do you have that analysis of revenue to expenses completed yet on the advantage of running the Urbanite via a collect run as opposed to a straight?"

Darn it after all, the day dream is over and I'm quickly forced to focus back on reality and the task before me at the newspaper. Oh well, I had fun searching for that lost ark while it lasted.

Wouldn't it be great to "chuck it all" so to speak and lead the life of Indiana Jones, if only for a day?

That thought occurred to me recently after reading the story of the curator of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites in New York, who believes a meteorite of significant proportions landed within a 40-mile radius of Mio Sept. 1.

The curator - Darryl Pitt - is a former Michigan resident, which perhaps lends credibility to the Mio crash landing. On Sept. 1 witnesses saw what was described as a "fireball" streak across the northern Michigan sky. The witnesses described the object as a beach ball or burning jet plane. Some even said they heard a sonic boom. It was after Pitt talked with witnesses in Sault Ste. Marie and Traverse City, that the Mio drop zone was established.

I enjoy Mio as well as the next person but to think of a fireball shooting out of space and choosing Mio to crash land at is, frankly, hard to fathom. If a meteorite is going to go to all that trouble and expend all that energy, wouldn't a location like Maui, for instance, be much more appealing?

But I digress.

Pitt knows better than most that right now hunters take to the woods of Northeast Michigan like bees to honey, and it is his hope that not only will hunters be scouting for that perfect buck while out there, but also be looking for this lost meteorite.

Pitt said the meteorite would have a smooth blackened surface which would be the result of burning in the Earth's atmosphere. It may have some dimpling or flow lines, which are aerodynamic features of its trip. It will be heavier than a normal rock because of its iron content. Pitt believes it contains iron as some of the witnesses said the fireball burned green and blue at times in the night sky.

Why the interest in this rock from someone in New York?

Why not perhaps would be a better question.

Pitt said it is believed the meteorite originated somewhere in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and to find it helps give scientists and researchers more clues as to our universe - particularly the solar system.

"Each found meteorite is a possible Rosetta Stone in the formation of the solar system," Pitt told Julie Baker for a recent news story. "The reason why we want to find it is because it may provide a peek at what was responsible for the formation of the planets."

Just think, a possible glimpse into the solar system's origin could reside somewhere nearby. Isn't that reason enough to head outside and begin our search?

I hear that theme song again running through my head. And, in the words of that famous philosopher Jimmy Buffet, it has to be 5 p.m. somewhere in the world right now - right? Let's head to the woods.