04 September 2012

NV CA Fireball 21AUG2012 Meteorite(s) Found!

Followup - NV CA Fireball 21AUG2012 Meteorite(s) Found! near Battle Mountain, NV
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Bob and Moni Verish have found the first meteorite from the Battle Mountian, NV Fall.
(c) 2012 Bob and Moni Verish
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Marc Fries writes, "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 21 August 2012! They have located a 19.25g meteorite that appears to be an OC 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

My sincere thanks go out to the general public that made meteor sighting reports on The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News!!!  Thank you!  Without your information this meteorite would have never likely been recovered! 
-LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Dirk Ross; Tokyo, Japan

Fries has developed a technique and model that helps locate meteorite falls using weather radar data:
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Green Bars indicate location of meteorite debris cloud
(c) Marc Fries /NOAA
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Modeling of falling meteorite bodies.
(c) 2012 Marc Fries /Google Earth
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(c) 2012 Dirk Ross, Tokyo / Google Earth
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NV CA Fireball 21AUG2012 Sightings Map
Neon markers = sighting reports
v,1 (c) LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Dirk Ross / Google Earth
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http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2012/08/breaking-news-mbiq-detects-nevada.html

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