Author name: Robert Verish

Some of these stony meteorites have already been classified. USA150806 This stone wasn’t “Recognized” as a meteorite until 2019 August. Now classified as “Ureilite”, and its name was approved on 2020 April 5th, as: Hardpan Flat (URE) My last article was at the beginning of 2020, before the start of this current pandemic. You would think that with all of

A newsletter for “Uncatalogued, but classified” meteorites, as well as, unclassified Ordinary Chondrites found in the USA. “Bob’s Findings” article for this month Read More →

A “Bob’s Findings” Article by Robert Verish Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 5 No. 2 A newsletter for uncatalogued and unclassified meteorites found in the USA. Long-time readers of Bob’s Bulletin might notice a subtle change to this newsletter where we have included “Uncatalogued (but classified)” meteorites to the list of “Orphaned” USA meteorites. It has come to our attention that

The mystery of the location of a 5-ton mass of iron, suspected of being a meteorite, after being found in the California Mojave Desert, but was never recovered. It came as a surprise to me when I received a large manilla envelope in the mail, containing photo-copies of newspaper clippings and photos of what was described as being “Another Large

Evidence indicates that the Murray meteorite predates the solar system. After the recent fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite in Costa Rica, a lot of attention has been directed to “CM2” carbonaceous chondrites, and rightly so. When scientists want to research how our solar system formed, they request samples of “CM” meteorites. Because, these are the meteorites that contain grains

A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. Some more good news to share with the readers of this newsletter. Several small donations have been made towards paying for the cost of getting classified some of the Ordinary Chondrites (OC) that have appeared in these Bob’s Bulletins. Now that I have found some “approved classifiers” that are willing to

Falling Star An original song by Greg Stanley and Shanna O’Brien.   My meteorite-hunting partner, Greg Stanley, has always had an affection for achondrites. He even admitted as much on the Meteorite-List back in 2010 July 1st, when asked, “What types of meteorites do you collect?” he wrote, “I favor Achondrites, the more exotic the better – – – I

A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. More good news to share with you regarding recent efforts at finding a solution to the problem of Ordinary Chondrite (OC) finds found here in the U.S.A. going unreported, and undocumented, and unclassified. We have found some university graduate students willing to volunteer as classifiers-in-training, and who are very willing to

The mystery of the origin of the iron meteorite found on the grounds of the former mansion for Edward L. Doheny. Make no mistake, there is little doubt in the minds of the researchers who have examined this iron meteorite, that this iron is nothing more than a transported “Canyon Diablo” (CD) meteorite. But how it traveled to Los Angeles

Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 3 A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. When it comes to meteorite-hunting you don’t always get to chose what days you can go and hunt. Sometimes the weather is so bad you simply have to postpone and make other plans. But sometimes, there is a change in the weather for the

Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 2 A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. Recently there have been some promising developments in regards to finding a solution to the problem of Ordinary Chondrite (OC) finds going unreported, and undocumented, and unclassified. In short, they end up “lost to history”. (Clarification: for the purpose of this discussion, it is

Bob’s Bulletin – Vol. 4 No. 1  A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. This month’s edition of the “Bulletin” focuses on just some of the recent US finds that I have had the privilege to document. *** Note: Not all of the meteorites depicted in this month’s article were found by me. *** For example, in the

Commemorating the life of my friend and of our fellow meteorite-hunting colleague.The recent passing of Robert Hoover has prompted me to postpone this month’s article, and instead to make notice of this sad news. Robert Dan Hoover, Born in Corona, CA on January 25, 1938 passed peacefully while in hospice care near his home in Yucca Valley, CA on November

A newsletter for unclassified meteorites found in the USA. In all of my previous Bob’s Bulletins, I prefaced each one with an explanation of what I mean by the phrase “orphaned-meteorites from the USA”. I defined “orphaned” as being meteorite “finds” that are recovered in the U.S., but are not being recorded. Contrary to what you may think, these meteorites

On the last weekend of April 2017, a small group of U.S. military veterans gathered in the Mojave Desert near Pahrump Nevada to take part in a “group meteorite hunt”. This was an open-invitation to all veterans, whether they had any experience at searching for meteorites, or not. The purpose of this gathering was to have a social function where