Anne Black
12/17/2023 8:29:49 PM |
Yes, Michael, your in-situ pictures are there. I see them. Very nice find. |
John lutzon
12/17/2023 7:03:21 PM |
Personal provenance situations should be more prevalent. Good stuff, gentlemen. |
Michael Mulgrew
12/17/2023 5:26:09 PM |
Unfortunately it appears my in-situ pictures were not of adequate quality for the MPotD. Field lighting is tough this time of year with the sun so low. |
Michael Mulgrew
12/17/2023 5:25:05 PM |
I wish I got into meteorite hunting 10 or 15 years earlier, I can only imagine what the CA meteorite gold rush was like. I got to relive part of it second hand when Mark Bittman found a 9kg cluster of a single stone a few years ago. I've seen the photos of the milk crates that used to be used to take the finds home. :) |
Rob Matson
12/17/2023 2:17:51 PM |
A couple decades ago Paul's father Nick showed me a small *suitcase* of meteorites he and Paul had harvested from Coyote Dry Lake. Nick's first find there was almost exactly 25 years ago! The initial find had been made by Bob Verish 3 1/2 years prior (May 1995), though Bob didn't return to find the second until 8 days prior to Nick's find.
Once Nick arrived, Coyote Dry Lake 003-024 were found over the next couple weeks. By March 1999, the Coyote meteorite count was over 100.
Unaware of the prior finds there, my first visit to the lake was in February 2001 where I quickly made a couple finds in the morning less than 30 feet apart. To my knowledge, of the dozen or so dry lakes around southern California, this has been the most productive, and as Michael illustrates the playa continues to produce to this day and probably for the foreseeable future. But oh to have been there in 1998! |
Jarkko Kettunen
12/17/2023 10:02:40 AM |
Nice! Congratulations! |
Mike Murray
12/17/2023 8:12:45 AM |
Real nice Michael. Congratulations on the find. |
Paul Gessler
12/17/2023 3:49:19 AM |
Nice one Michael. There's always more....that was a bonanza back in the day |
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