[meteorite-list] Los Angeles Meteorite Anniversary

[Ron Baalke]

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