[meteorite-list] New Nevada Meteorite finds/Strewn field

From: wahlperry_at_aol.com <wahlperry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Mar 28 16:03:46 2006
Message-ID: <8C820B493BABAB6-13D4-B07A_at_MBLK-M26.sysops.aol.com>

Hi,

I was talking to my hunting partner Rob Reisner about new areas we
could check out for meteorites. Rob told me of an area that he found a
60-70 gram ordinary chondrite with fresh fusion crust 3 years earlier.
He only hunted the area for a couple hours due to the extreme
temperatures of the summer heat in Nevada desert. I told Rob "They
gotta to be out there"(sorry Geoff I had to use that phrase again). I
decided to go to the area and spend a couple of days looking for more
meteorites. Rob told me he had picked up the meteorite not knowing it
was a meteorite until he had walked about 20 feet from the area. Anyone
hunting in the full sun knows that after a couple of hours hunting your
eyes get hard to focus and all the rocks look the same. So my plan was
to go to the location and metal detect for more meteorites or the small
pieces missing off his first find. After a hour of metal detecting I
decided this was a dumb idea and to start looking for more meteorites
that may have fallen with this one. Within a couple of hours of
searching I found a 27 gram chondrite with a piece broken off, the
meteorite had a very dark fusion crust. The first day I found 4 pieces
in a half mile area separated by brush and rocks. My thought is it may
be a fall of multiple meteorites due to the location of the fragments
and meteorites. The second day of hunting only two more meteorites were
found. All of the meteorites and fragment were under 100 grams .The
farthest fragment/ broken meteorite was about 1-1/4 miles away from the
first find. All of the meteorites were photographed in situ and the
location GPS'd. After down loading the coordinates onto the computer it
shows a nice line and may start to be a new strewn field. There has
gotta be more out there. I will post some pictures later.

Sonny
Received on Tue 28 Mar 2006 02:25:59 PM PST