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Ensisheim – Meteorite 2011 Images from the international gathering of meteorite aficionados.

July 1, 2011

Ensisheim – Meteorite 2011 Images from the international gathering of meteorite aficionados.

This was the year that I finally made it to Ensisheim. For years I’ve been reading about and seeing the images from all of the meteorite collectors and dealers who attend this “Show”. But this was the year that I got the opportunity to return to Europe, so I made sure my trip would coincide [...]

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Column: Bob's Findings

Pennsylvania Meteorites

June 1, 2011

Pennsylvania Meteorites

Pennsylvania Meteorites in the mineral collection at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since 1941 there have been a total of eight Pennsylvania (PA) meteorites – five irons (all finds)and three L-chondrites (all falls), according to the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. Three (3) of these “PA meteorites” are in the in the mineral [...]

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Column: Bob's Findings

April 1, 2011

Yaringie Hill

The article that appeared in the 2009 November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. When I first saw the image of the Yaringie Hill meteorite on the cover of the 2009 November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences (M&PS), I have to admit that I didn’t know that it was an Australian meteorite. But I [...]

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The Flandrau – Part 2 – UA Mineral Museum

March 1, 2011

The Flandrau – Part 2 – UA Mineral Museum

The University of Arizona Mineral Museum is a must-see attraction when you are in Tucson, especially if you are attending the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. This article is the 2nd Part of a two-part series highlighting the meteorite displays at “The Flandrau” (Science Center) on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. My previous [...]

Tags: Jim Smaller, Museums, O. Richard Norton, Tucson Show

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The Flandrau – Science Center & Planetarium

February 1, 2011

The Flandrau – Science Center & Planetarium

The Flandrau – Science Center & Planetarium For the meteorite aficionado this is a must-see destination while attending the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has become a “mecca” for those of us with any interest in meteorites. The yearly “pilgrimage” to this desert city-turned-spacerock-convention is often described in near-religious-tones [...]

Tags: Flandrau Science Center, Tucson Iron

Column: Bob's Findings

January 1, 2011

Happy New Year

Happy New YearPrevious “Bob’s Findings” Articles – Revisions and Updates. Hello Year 2011! Goodbye Year 2010! The start of a new year gives all of us a chance to start anew. A chance to improve upon the previous year. Or, if the year 2010 was a particularly good year for you, then at least, the [...]

Tags: Lucerne Valley 121

Column: Bob's Findings

December 1, 2010

Lost Lake

Lost Lake After years of planning, I finally get to search this remote dry lake. Any meteorite found here would have to remain here! May sound stupid, but it’s true (to the letter of the law). Well, I finally succeeded in hiking all the way to the north end of Lost Lake, but I still [...]

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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 [...]

Tags: Bill Cassidy, Campo del Cielo

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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 asteroid would smell if it had an atmosphere. This has to be one of my more unusual “Findings”! This “finding” involves the smell of a meteorite, which I’m discovering is a very difficult subject to write about [...]

Tags: Norton County, Odors in meteorites

Column: Bob's Findings

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 [...]

Tags: Meteoritical Society Meeting

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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 fireball and fall 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 owners farm, which is also looking “up the trend” of the strewn field. [...]

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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 Fall 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 fireball and fall of meteorites in Grant and Iowa County in Wisconsin. [As of the publishing [...]

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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 [...]

Tags: Planetariums

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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 graphite ” and “metalloporphyrin ” in the Los Angeles Martian meteorite (diabasic shergottite). The fact that these compounds have a biotic origin is not questioned. Although [...]

Tags: Exobiology, Los Angeles (SHE)

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