[meteorite-list] Buck Mountains 003

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:31:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <480011.8709.qm_at_web51704.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

We read here on the List of many news-accounts and
other second-hand stories about meteorites finds and
suspect falls (i.e., the "NJO" and the Rhode Island
archeology find, etc.) but we rarely if ever get any
resolution to these - originally highly publicized,
and now all but forgotten accounts. This lack of
finality must be frustrating to those Listees who
followed closely those events.

Well, here's an old news-account that now has finally
come to a conclusion.
Well, it may not have really come to a conclusion, but
at least this meteorite has a name, Buck Mountains 003


<http://xrl.us/BM003>

And the reason that this may not have come to a
conclusion is because it's still being debated whether
this 34kg find is paired to the Palo Verde Mine (L6)!?
But that's another thread... anyway...

Congrats to Denny Asher on his entry in the MetBull.

-- Bob V.

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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:46:58 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Man Finds What Apears to be 75-Pound
Meteorite in Arizona


http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4108042&nav=HMO6

Man finds what appears to be 75-pound meteorite
Associated Press
November 12, 2005

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. It's not manna from heaven,
but is likely a meteorite weighing 75 pounds.

Denny Asher of Yucca in northwestern Arizona says the
discovery is "better than finding a bucket of gold."

He found the rock about two weeks ago near his home.

Asher is a veteran meteorite hunter.

He says the 75-pounder is unlike any of the other
pieces he's collected.

The collections manager at Arizona State University's
Center for Meteorite Studies says pictures forwarded
to her by Asher almost certainly confirm his find is a
meteorite.

Scientists hope to test the space rock and determine
its age, chemical composition and the origins of its
parent asteroid.
Received on Wed 04 Apr 2007 08:31:16 PM PDT