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Bill Cassidy and the Campo del Cielo Strewn Field (1960′s)

October 1, 2010

Bill Cassidy and the Campo del Cielo Strewn Field (1960′s)

Bill Cassidy shares some of his pictures from the Campo del Cielo strewn field taken in the 1960′s.       During a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, I stopped-in at University of Pitt to pay a visit to Professor Emeritus Bill Cassidy. It was a treat to talk to him about his work [...]

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Planetary Body Odors

September 1, 2010

Planetary Body Odors

Planetary Body Odors A smell emanating from a Norton County meteorite gives this author some idea how an asteroidA body in our solar system composted of either metal or rock which is smaller than a planet yet larger than a meteoroid. Though the size ranges are not clearly defined and usage of the two terms [...]

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Summer Vacation – 2010

August 2, 2010

Summer Vacation – 2010

Summer Vacation – 2010 Summer vacation is a great time to catch-up on reading about meteorites. Here is my select list of some recent abstracts. You can blame this abbreviated version of Bob’s Findings on my “summer-time schedule”. The weather this summer has been so mild, here where I live, that it is hard to [...]

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July 1, 2010

Tungsten Mountain 533

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Images of my Wisconsin Trip to Hunt for Meteorites

June 1, 2010

Images of my Wisconsin Trip to Hunt for Meteorites

Search for Chondrites – from the April 14th fireballA very bright meteor. and fallThe recovered meteorites of an event that was seen by eye witnesses. of meteorites in Grant and Iowa County in Wisconsin. Holding my “Wisconsin” find for the first time. View is of the find location looking in the direction of the property [...]

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Recovery of Meteorites from the 4/14/2010 Fall in Wisconsin

May 1, 2010

Recovery of Meteorites from the 4/14/2010 Fall in Wisconsin

What Made the Recovery of Meteorites from the 4/14/2010 FallThe recovered meteorites of an event that was seen by eye witnesses. in Wisconsin such a Rapid and Timely Success? The quality of Doppler-radar weather images from NOAA is the main reason. There has been much written about the April 14th fireballA very bright meteor. and [...]

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Spring Cleaning of my prior Planetarium Articles

April 1, 2010

Spring Cleaning of my prior Planetarium Articles

We need MORE IMAGES of meteorites that are on display in MUSEUMS and PLANETARIUMS A recent discussion regarding one of my previous Bob’s Findings articles about the Fleischman Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, brought to my attention that trying to find images of meteorites and meteorite displays in museums and planetariums, even with [...]

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Evidence of Life Found in Another Martian Meteorite!

March 1, 2010

Evidence of Life Found in Another Martian Meteorite!

Another Mars rock, the Los Angeles meteorite, has fossil evidence that suggests life once existed on Mars. Researchers using Raman Spectrographic equipment (like the setup above) have found “disordered graphiteA mineral form of carbon characterized by a flat sheet like crystalline structure. It occurs in iron meteorits as blebs and nodules and abundantly in carbonaceous [...]

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The Arizona Meteorite Exhibition (2010)

February 1, 2010

The Arizona Meteorite Exhibition (2010)

The first-ever LPL event was well-attended. Hopefully there will be more Exhibitions in the future. In my opinion the first-ever Arizona Meteorite Exhibition was a huge success. It was hosted by, and was the “kick-off” event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) located on the University of Arizona campus in [...]

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The Last Meteorite Found for Year 2009 (Maybe?)

January 1, 2010

The Last Meteorite Found for Year 2009 (Maybe?)

Could this meteorite that was found on December 31st (18:50 GMT) be the very last find for the year 2009? The weather forecast for the Sonoran Desert looked perfect and my schedule was free for the last few remaining days of 2009. So I arranged a trip out to the desert and invited some of [...]

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Jim Smaller Memorial Meteorite Hunt

December 1, 2009

Jim Smaller Memorial Meteorite Hunt

Franconia meteorite hunt held in honor of the late Jim Smaller.   Jim Smaller was a kind and unassuming gentleman who resided in Kingman, Arizona, and who frequented the nearby Franconia and Gold Basin strewn fields. His passing away on October 25th 2009 was noted on the Meteorite-List. When friends and fellow meteorite hunters would [...]

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O. Richard Norton (1937-2009) – A thankful Californian remembers his mentor.

November 1, 2009

O. Richard Norton (1937-2009) – A thankful Californian remembers his mentor.

An Article In Meteorite-Times Magazine by Robert Verish   O. Richard Norton (1937-2009) A thankful Californian remembers his mentor.   O. Richard Norton (left) with author, jointly holding the Los Angeles Mars rocks Image taken February 2000. I remember the first time that I met O. Richard Norton. It was February 2000 and it was [...]

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October 1, 2009

New Fraud Tactics in the Mineral Trade

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September 1, 2009

Fleischmann Planetarium A must see destination in Reno at the University of Nevada.

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