The Hunt for Battle Mountain Meteorites

A photo gallery of my August 2012 trip to Battle Mountain, Nevada.

There won’t be a “Bob’s Findings” article this month because I’ve returned to the strewn-field near Battle Mountain, Nevada, where a meteorite fell on the 22nd of August 2012 (UTC). The first find from this fall was found by this author on September 1st 2012 10:50AM (PDT). Since then, there have been many more finds made by a variety of finders. A list of finds can be found here.

This is the time for meteorite-recovery, while the weather holds up, because winter comes early at this elevation and latitude.

Hope you enjoy the images:

Photo Gallery of my August 2012 trip to Battle Mountain:

2012 September 1st – Nevada

2012 Sept – Nevada

2012 Sept – Nevada

2012 Sep 02 (UTC) – Nevada

2012 Sep 02 – Battle Mtn. Nevada

2012 Sept 08 – Nevada

Below image taken 2012 Jan 05 4:36PM PST – Nevada

When I first posted the above image in January of this year, I said it was an omen and predicted that 2012 would be the year of many bolides!
Hope you enjoyed the images!
There will be much more information about these meteorites from Battle Mountain in the near future.

References:

[meteorite-list] Battle Mountain Field report / strewn field conditions / etc.

Robert Verish
Fri Sep 7 22:14:56 EDT 2012
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2012-September/087060.html

[meteorite-list] Fw: BaM01 classification

Robert Verish
Wed Sep 12 00:41:18 EDT 2012
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2012-September/087119.html

[meteorite-list] Fw: BaM01 classification

Michael Farmer
Wed Sep 12 00:52:02 EDT 2012
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2012-September/087123.html

[Meteorite Picture of the Day] Halite crystal in meteorites

Monahans
Tue Sep 18 2012
http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=9/18/2012&WYD=

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