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 stay indoors and work […]
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. Well, the title says it
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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 of this article, there still
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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 search engines like Google, will
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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 these two compounds have been
Evidence of Life Found in Another Martian Meteorite! Read Post »
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 Tucson. It brought together Arizona
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 my friends. My long-time rockhounding
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 describe Jim, the word most
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 during the first Tucson Show
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