[meteorite-list] Salinas man finds meteorites in Nevada

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:06:11 -0700
Message-ID: <1439859971.82928.YahooMailBasic_at_web142501.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Just in case you were wondering,
If you try to search in the Met Bulletin Database for "Misfit Flats", it will result in "No Matches Found".
You will have to type-in the correct name for the locality, "Misfits Flat" in order to get results for Misfits Flat 001 & 002.

This is a rare case where a Nevada dry lake was named after a movie, "The Misfits" (1961, dir. John Huston).
Many people questioned why this movie was shot in black&white, but I like to think that, since so many scenes were shot at this location,
the harsh light of the dry lake forced the issue:
http://tinyurl.com/oa6a6ru
Bob V.


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On Mon, 8/17/15, Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

 Subject: [meteorite-list] Salinas man finds meteorites in Nevada
 To: "Meteorite Central" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
 Date: Monday, August 17, 2015, 12:40 PM
 
 Hello Listers
 
 Great read, enjoy :)
 
 Shawn Alan
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 Salinas man finds meteorites in Nevada
 
 Scott Harlan 7:38 a.m. PDT August 15, 2015
 
 My interest in geology probably started with my father who was a
 petroleum geologist. We would go to gem and mineral shows together and
 look at all of the spectacular specimens.
 
 Later as an adult, our family often incorporated some kind of rock
 hounding in our vacations. We hunted for fossil fish in Wyoming,
 trilobites in Utah and Herkimer diamonds in New Jersey. This was
 something everyone in our family could do with really equal chances of
 success regardless of age.
 
 There is a sense of discovery when you find something that no man has
 ever seen before.
 
 In 2011, there was a witnessed meteorite fall near Sutter?s Mill in
 California. It was a large fireball and the speeding meteorite fragments
 appeared on weather radar, so there was good definition for where to
 look for meteorites on the ground.
 
 My brother and I went up to Lotus, an unincorporated community in El
 Dorado County, and searched for a couple days, but we did not find
 anything. Many people did find meteorites from that fall, however, and
 this sparked my interest in meteorite hunting.
 
 Source:
 http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/life/2015/08/15/salinas-man-finds-meteorites-nevada/31775177/
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