Happy anniversary! Michael in so. Cal.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Ron Baalke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Fourteen years ago today, Bob Verish was cleaning out his rock collection. > His collection > had grown so large, he had to store some of the collection in his backyard. > Rats had > built their nests in the boxes, which his wife had noticed. So at her > insistence, he > was clearing out these rats nests. As he was doing so, he came across two > rocks in his > collection which he had picked up somewhere in the Mojave Desert about 20 > years prior. > At the time he collected them, he noted they were unusual, but did not > recognize them as > meteorites. But now, he recognized the rocks as meteorites with their obvious > fusion crust, > and the smaller of the two stones was a perfect oriented meteorite. The > paired rocks were > to be classified as Mars meteorites and named the Los Angeles meteorite. More > details here: > > http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/la.html > > Ron Baalke > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
