Rookie Bomb Global/Hof: Fact or Fiction?

Since I have personally witnessed this happen a few times, it is definitely fact. However it seems strange to spend ten times the money on bombs and never hit one, yet buy a few peds worth of noob bombs and get globals. Consider that a rookie bomb costs as much as a click at basic filters crafting.

Although I have a theory as to why the Rookie bombs have been so effective for so many people... I mean on my first try just for the hell of it, I put two peds into a run, and came up with an VIII lysterium when I couldn't even hit a V amped with a normal finder. Seems ridiculous, right?

Well, I have observed most big hofs happen at shallow depths of say 150 to 300m... At least this is what I observe. They are quite shallow. The reason I believe is that most people go for the deeper finders. not to mention that a shallow finder isn't quite deep enough either. Well, statistically you can hit a few 1m depth deposits with a normal finder, but by and large this is uncommon.

Presumably the system spawns 1 to 5 m depth deposits, and since they can't generally be hit by normal full size finders, they perhaps grow. A rookie has a tenth of the multiplier that a full cost bomb has if mining... So you can expect what ever you find is one tenth the size of what you would have found if using a normal finder. Well, say you have a global of 50 peds on a rookie at shallow depths... A full cost bomb drop should have technically gave you around 500 peds... Is it not foreseeable that a 500 ped deposit is laying right under the surface?

Hitting a rookie global is no more strange than hitting a basic filters global, but the fact so many people have done it with such ease has me wondering why I was still using normal finders :-)