Nevada Meteorite Picture of the Day
(for the Month of August 2007)

Explanation:

The above image was sent to me by the finder (back in 2003). Luckily the GPS in this image shows the date-of-find for this meteorite, otherwise we wouldn't even have that little bit of information. Hopefully the finder took a record of the recovery information, but it did not accompany this image. In the interim the finders email address has changed and they can no longer be contacted. This image is all that we have as a record of this Nevada meteorite find. This is just one example of how meteorite finds end up going unreported. Other examples of how meteorites could end up "lost to science" are:
Accidental deletion of files and messages,
Hard drive "crash",
Finder changes email address,
Finder moves or loses meteorite,
Procrastination,
and many other reasons, but most could have been adverted if more prompt attention were given to (or more frequent backing-up of) data and record files.

It is hoped that by posting this image, the finder will re-establish contact, and that this find can eventually be properly recorded.

[Note: This web page will be revised when the finder has reported this meteorite to the Nomenclature Committee (Nom Comm) of the Meteoritical Society.
{See "For Reference:" below}
You don't need to be a member of the Society in order to do this reporting. In fact, the Committee prefers that the finders, themselves, report each of their Nevada meteorite finds. The minimum information they require is 1) Date of find, 2) Mass of find, and 3) Location of find. With this minimal information you can then have a Provisional Name and/or Number assigned to your find. Yes, that's right. Your find doesn't need to be classified in order to get a Provisional name. The NomComm will keep this "information" and the Provisional Name strictly confidential - AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE, for every finder that has contacted them.]

(In "close-up" images, Scale is an American "quarter" dollar.)

For Reference:

UNREPORTED FINDS (WITHOUT NomCom "Provisional" names or numbers):


Meteorite finds (from North America) can now get "Provisional" names or numbers assigned to them.  
These are assigned by the Nomenclature Commmittee (NomComm) of the Meteoritical Society.  
In the past it wasn't always possible to get a "provisional" name, so in the future this may be 
subject to change.  But for now, given the glut of meteorite finds and the long delay in getting 
classifications, it has been recognized that it is better to provisionally record 
a meteorite find (now) than it is to wait for ALL the required information to be gathered (years later).  


And as is the current trend, where more and more important meteorites are being found and 
are in need of being studied, it has been recognized that there are even that many more 
Ordinary Chondrite finds being made, and not only are they going "unstudied", they are going "unrecorded"!  
So, in order to not lose this data, the NomComm is accepting recovery information directly 
from meteorite finders and issuing to them "provisional" names and/or numbers.
Clearly this policy is borrowed from the NWA provisional numbering process 
and is only intended to be a stop-gap measure until the glut of Ordinary Chondrite finds 
from North America subsides (if ever).   

So, if you have found a new Nevada meteorite and would like to report it and get a "provisional" name, 
or even easier, you have made a find from a known, formally named locality and would like to 
have a number issued, please contact the Editor of the Meteoritical Bulletin, Dr. Harold C. Connolly Jr

Would you like to see your image displayed here? Feel free to submit your image to the editor's email address below. Any and all submissions of Nevada meteorite images are welcome.