Nevada Meteorite Picture of the Month
(for the Month of March 2013)

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 September 06, 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 September 6th (just 6 months before this webpage was published), so there is very little that can be said about this 2.2 gram Ordinary Chondrite. This was the third of six other finds made that day, all before 11AM. It is my contention that this fragment is probably an equilibrated H-chondrite, and that it is probably paired to the H5 S3 W3 strewn-field discovered at this locality. This is very typical of the shape/color/size/texture of most of the other fragments found at this locality.

Obviously, there will be much more written about this strewn-field in the future, but in the meanwhile, this locality will continue to undergo an 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)