Nevada Meteorite Picture of the Day
(for the Month of June 2008)

Discover the Solar System - right here in the Nevada desert! Every month a different image or photograph of a NEVADA meteorite will be featured, along with a brief explanation written by a meteorite-recovery expert.

Image taken May 23, 2008:
See Explanation.


Name of Nevada Meteorite: RECENT find, still pending submission for a NomComm-approved provisional name.
Image taken with permission of finder.
Credit: Image taken by author.

Explanation:

In the hand of its finder, rests a 176 gram fully-crusted, chondritic stone - Nevada's latest meteorite is a "cold find" (a new locality).

More information will be forthcoming. But for now, this finder is busy searching for any more siblings from this asteroidal parent body.

For Reference: 

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 
provisional number issued, 
please contact the Editor of the Meteoritical Bulletin, Dr. Michael K. Weisberg

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.

The previous Picture of the "Day" is HERE !

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Authors & editors: Robert Verish (Meteorite-Recovery Lab)