Congrats Moni and Bob! good job guys. see you soon:) Been a little busy myself down south.
Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Marc Fries <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings > > I am very pleased to announce that Bob and Moni Verish have found the > first meteorite from the Battle Mountain meteorite fall, which occurred on 22 > August 2012! They have located a 19.25g meteorite that appears to be an H > chondrite at first examination. According to the Meteoritical Society > database, this makes Bob and Moni the first to ever recover an observed fall > in the state of Nevada! We offer our hearty congratulations for this > history-making find! > Details of the meteorite fall, to include radar imagery, seismometry and > other data, a calculated strewn field estimate, and other information can be > found on the Galactic Analytics LLC website: > > http://wp.me/p2AyTK-bg > > We would like to maintain a table of all the Battle Mountain (BaM) > meteorites, much the same as Petrus Jenniskens did for the Sutter's Mill > fall. This will improve the value of the meteorites to both scientists and > collectors by preserving the individual histories of the meteorites. We will > provide a copy of this list to everyone who locates a meteorite and adds > their meteorite to it, and when the list has matured we will release it to > the public. If you find a meteorite, please let us know about it! We are not > asking for samples of any meteorite, just information about individual > meteorites - the date of find, the mass, lat/long coordinates, and the name > of the finder. Your meteorite(s) will be issued a unique BaM number, much as > the Sutter's Mill meteorites were given SM numbers. > > Congratulations again to Bob and Moni for finding the newest meteorite on > Earth (that we know about, anyways)! > > Cheers, > Marc Fries > Galactic Analytics LLC > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
