[meteorite-list] New Nevada Meteorite finds/Strewn field

[wahlperry at aol.com]

Hi,

I was talking to my hunting partner Rob Reisner about new areas we 
could check out for meteorites. Rob told me of an area that he found a 
60-70 gram ordinary chondrite with fresh fusion crust 3 years earlier. 
He only hunted the area for a couple hours due to the extreme 
temperatures of the summer heat in Nevada desert. I told Rob "They 
gotta to be out there"(sorry Geoff I had to use that phrase again). I 
decided to go to the area and spend a couple of days looking for more 
meteorites. Rob told me he had picked up the meteorite not knowing it 
was a meteorite until he had walked about 20 feet from the area. Anyone 
hunting in the full sun knows that after a couple of hours hunting your 
eyes get hard to focus and all the rocks look the same. So my plan was 
to go to the location and metal detect for more meteorites or the small 
pieces missing off his first find. After a hour of metal detecting I 
decided this was a dumb idea and to start looking for more meteorites 
that may have fallen with this one. Within a couple of hours of 
searching I found a 27 gram chondrite with a piece broken off, the 
meteorite had a very dark fusion crust. The first day I found 4 pieces 
in a half mile area separated by brush and rocks. My thought is it may 
be a fall of multiple meteorites due to the location of the fragments 
and meteorites. The second day of hunting only two more meteorites were 
found. All of the meteorites and fragment were under 100 grams .The 
farthest fragment/ broken meteorite was about 1-1/4 miles away from the 
first find. All of the meteorites were photographed in situ and the 
location GPS'd. After down loading the coordinates onto the computer it 
shows a nice line and may start to be a new strewn field. There has 
gotta be more out there. I will post some pictures later.

Sonny