Nevada Meteorite Picture of the Month
(for the Month of December 2012)

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 October 02, 2012:
See Explanation.


Name of Nevada Meteorite: Very recent find! Meaning, there is no provisional-name, let alone a classification.
Image by author of this webpage.
Credit: All images taken by Robert Verish. Please request permission from this author before use.

Explanation:

This find was made on 2012 October 2nd (just 2 months before this webpage was published), so there is very little that can be said about this 19.4 gram Ordinary Chondrite. This was the first of three small chondritic finds made that day. It is my contention that this whole-stone individual is probably an equilibrated H-chondrite, and that it is probably paired to previously classified fragments found at this locality.

This locality requires a more intensive and extensive search.

For Reference:
To Report a New Nevada Meteorite - Contact the Editor of the Bulletin, or use the Meteoritical Society Nomenclature Committee's web form .

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