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The Lorton Meteorite ownership battle is heating up like the big finale in Star Wars. Except this “star war” is over a little black rock! In my opinion this whole issue is moot. This meteorite ownership fight is becoming more of a PR war than a legal battle. Yet the war rages on in the [...]
![Wisconsin Meteorite Strewnfield [Map]](http://www.meteoritesusa.com/wp-content/themes/imperial/thumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/radar-map-thumb.jpg&w=372&h=100&zc=1&q=95)
After much work and the combined efforts of countless meteorite hunters, collectors, dealers and scientist’s data. The Wisconsin Meteorite Strewnfield Map is done (more coordinates will be added as they come in). This is a work in progress.
AUTHORS NOTE: Do not hunt on landowners land without gaining permission to hunt FIRST!
Disclaimer: Don’t use these maps [...]
We are star dust! From the dust whence we came… For the first time, scientists have discovered a massive star around which exists a huge ring of dust. It’s called a protoplanetary disk and it’s where planets and ultimately how entire solar systems are formed. It’s where life itself starts with the birth of a [...]
A common myth about meteorites impacting Earth as a flaming missile, exploding in a massive fireball rocketing shrapnel pieces for miles around while blasting a huge crater in the ground is just that, a myth. While it’s possible for a large asteroid to hold it’s cosmic velocity all the way to the ground, most meteorites [...]
Join the Meteorite Hunting Association
“The people for the ethical treatment of meteorites.”
PETM? Naaaa…
Point being I’ve proposed this idea to many meteorite hunters and they think it’s a good idea. An organization that works closely with scientists, institutions, universities, labs, museums, private collectors etc. An organization with a common mission to provide scientific data [...]
“…Proof of Life in Three Martian Rocks May Come This Year – NASA says advanced instruments will allow it to definitively prove whether three Martian meteorites contain evidence of life…”
According toNASA “…Using more advanced analytical instruments now available, a Johnson Space Center research team has reexamined the 1996 finding that a meteorite contains strong evidence [...]
NASA Confirms that 2010 AL30 is most likely a small asteroid measuring 10-15 meters (30-45 feet). As the update on NASA states there was some doubt as to whether the object was an asteroid.
Too bad it’s not going to impact Earth though… It would most likely produce a very nice meteorite strewnfield and would become [...]
What is A Meteorite Strewnfield?
To understand what a meteorite strewn field is you must first understand what a meteorite is and how it ends up on the Earth.
Meteorites are fragments of asteroids and meteoroids which have impacted the Earth. This debris, at one time was floating around the solar system orbiting the Sun. Most of [...]
To understand how to identify a meteorite you must first know the types of meteorites there are. There is a set of identifying characteristics that most meteorites exhibit that will aid in identification.
Typically most meteorites contain iron and tend to be magnetic. They are usually heavier and much more dense than ordinary terrestrial stones due [...]
What’s the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites? Well if you don’t know you’re not alone. Many people confuse them and use the terms interchangeably when in fact they aren’t all the same at all. In it’s simplest form an asteroid is BIG, a meteoroid is smaller, meteors are flaming meteoroids as they are [...]
Ruben Garcia & Son just had a successful trip to the Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield. See the photos below on the wonderful Gold Basin meteorites they collected. 355 grams in all. Two of the fragments fit together… Wow! Great work guys!
The Gold Basin meteorite strewnfield is located in northern Arizona about 45 minutes north of [...]
Two “Asteroid” pieces have been found in Karimpur village in India
No Photos… Short blurbs… Hot meteorites!???
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/579540/Science/9/20/9
EXCERPT: “…Two asteroids, which are believed to be pieces of a bigger meteor, have been found at Karimpur village in the district here.The small asteroids were found in the compound of Shyambir, a villager, yesterday. “Two small asteroids which fell [...]
A huge explosion and shower of debris sparks a theory that this event could be a meteorite dropping fireball. Here’s an excerpt from an article published in the Geelong Advertiser.
The report also states that a resident in the area said “..it sounded like a rock had been thrown at their kitchen window…”
“…David Van Vledder believes [...]
May 10th 2009
Here’s an interesting fireball. This is an unidentified fireball. Meaning that it’s not clear whether this is space debris, a plane, or a meteor fireball. It’s very cool nonetheless. This fireball was sighted and photographed by Paul Weaver after he received a call from his daughter who had been cruising in her car [...]
May 7th 10:30am PST UPDATE:
We’ve located an eyewitness to the event. They report that it was a “ball of fire in the air” and that it “moving downward” at a 45 degree angle and seemed to “slow and drop off steeply” at about a 75 degree angle during the last part of the event. The [...]
May 2nd UPDATE: After days of exhaustive research, interviews, reports and countless phone calls I believe we’re closing in on the possible fall location. We’ve received many reports via our fireball report hotline at 904-236-5394 and many people have sent us email describing their experience of this exciting event.
The reports generally suggest that this fireball [...]
April 17th 2009 6:30am A Fireball streaked across the sky over Wise county Virginia.
The early morning fireball was reported to have broken into two large pieces before extinguishing. Witnesses describe the fireball breaking apart in the sky and falling somewhere near Tacoma, VA according to reports. Witnesses also claim the fireball was at a very [...]
April 7th between 9:30 and 9:45pm (EST) Another fireball in the North Florida southern Georgia area! Tuesday night residents from Waycross Georgia to Crescent Beach Florida experienced a rare event. A huge fireball lasting more than 5 seconds was sighted by numerous people over the area. Reports are sketchy and still coming in. REPORT THE FIREBALL
This [...]
Looks like we have another exciting event! Fireballs from the sky, meteors, explosions! Sonic booms and fireball sightings have been reported all over the SouthEast from Maryland to Virgina and last week Georgia had it’s own big boom too. Over Augusta Georgia at around 3 a.m. on the 20th a fireball was sighted followed by [...]
This Canyon Diablo meteorite is my second favorite in my collection. I own a few but this one is very nice indeed. It’s sculptured shape make it especially fantastic. I kept this one natural for some time, but after having it in my collection for a while I decided to clean it.
Some people would diagree [...]
