Ray Pickard and thin section at the microscope

With Goose Lake at the US National Museum

Scott Mangus on the lookout

With Robert in the West, Texas, strewn field 2.20.9

A nice dinner with Patrick Herrmann, Jay Piatek and Bob Haag at Lil' Abners

Working the show in Tucson with Rob Wesel, Mike Bandli, Jason Phillips and Sonny Clary

Jackson and Bill Weaver digging targets in a Georgia field

Maddie with some Georgia meteorites and Georgiaites at the new Tellus Museume

Jackson on the hunt

Mark, Cole, Taylor, Lillie, Maddie and Stan checking out some rocks from space

Maddie and Hazel Ward...two meteorite hunting buddies ;-)

Maddie on the hunt with Robert in Franconia

With Cole, Mrs. Vanacore, Maddie, Grace and Ryan at Cogburn Woods Elementary

Zach doing some teaching of his own at a Hopewell Middle School science fair

Emma, Maddie and Lillie with Gao-Guenie, Sikhote-Alin and La Criolla

Spencer and Sikhote-Alin in Ohio

Jim and Brian Shorten passing through

Robert Ward with a killer sign in Oman

With Tim, Jose and Marvin in Denver

In the field with Sean Murray

With Dr. Art Ehlmann at TCU's Monnig Museum

With Hans and his pile of Campos in Denver

With Ahnighito at the AMNH

Maddie swinging away on the hunt

Katy with her self-designed fireball manicure... you never know how far you can go until you've gone too far ;-)

Ray Pickard, down under, with all one needs: a meteor-detecting radio telescope, the main mass of L5 NWA 4485 and a killer sign ;-)

Zach working the Lorenz in the field

The beginnings of a meteorite exhibit at Tellus Museum

Shauna in the right area

Robert on target

Eric, Sean, Dad and Jerry

Rocky Shipes with the remains of one of his 400-yard drives

With Robert Webb, Elachee's astronomer

Talking sky rocks with Adam, Julian and Jose from Tellus Museum

On top of a peak at Glorieta Mountain

With Michael Blood and Jerry Armstrong

Fellow MAG member, Sean Murray, closing a presentation with some comments on the mysterious tektites

With Jim, Robert, Greg, Michael, Shauna and Joey after a day of hunting

With Moritz and Dima in Arizona

With 400 Palmer Middle School students all fired up about rocks on fire

Inspecting the famous Camp Verde meteorite with Frank Bopp at ASU

With Laurence Garvie, ASU's curator of meteorites, and Allende

Sean Northover, at student at Kennesaw Mountain High School, confirming the weight of a 32.6 kilogram fresh, oriented - YES, FLIGHT ORIENTED - chondrite

MAG meeting in my offices on 4.26.08

Katy, Zach and Suzanna reenact the famous Claxton impact

I'll keep that in mind...

With Marvin Kilgore and his enormous Fukang pallasite main mass

Fun for all ages!

With Bob Haag, his new oriented diogenite and Robert Ward in Tucson

Speaking to a group of magnate students at Kennesaw Mountain High School

Out in Tucson with Robert, Mohammed, Michael, Adam and Jim

The proud owner of a new unclassified chondrite

Sunny with the Statesboro main mass

Kris and the Statesboro main mass
(photo by Maddie)

Connor, the budding meteorite collector and Georgia Tech placekicker

With David Hardy, Statesboro, and David's meteorite collection

With Debra Morrissette, Pieter Heydelaar and Mbale in Phoenix

With Jim Strope and Michael Farmer at the Birthday Bash in Tucson

At the remains of Nininger's original museum near Meteor Crater

With Robert Ward, his girlfriend, Shauna, Dad and Tom Bopp in Prescott, AZ

With Ruben Garcia at Franconia

Hunting the Holbrook strewn field

With Robert Ward and his incredible Dhofar 1143 recovery

Hunting the Franconia strewn field with Tom Bopp

With Eric Olson at his home in Fayetteville, NC

A priceless look on a kid's face after giving him a small chondrite at a local mineral & gem show

With Jock Hornor, Robert Webb, Maddie and Peter Gordon at Elachee Nature Science Center

Teaching a pre-K class at FasTracKids a little something about meteorites

With Darryl Pitt and his new hat in Tucson

Bennett with two staples in life - a chunk of Mars and a bag of Cheetos

Décor compliments of Dr. Svend Buhl

Harlan Trammell, THE Georgia meteorite man, and Kris with the Claxton mailbox back plate and a complete slice of the impactor

Delivering a course on Meteoritics 101 to Cobb County's science teachers

Jake on an interstellar meteorite recovery mission

Checking out some of Robert Ward's latest recovery photos with Bob Haag and Robert

Sammy and a 37 gram Martian Shergottite

Working with a group of students at East Cobb Middle School

Phoebe cutting her first weathered chondrite on a lapidary trim saw

In the FALLING ROCKS room with MAG at our second meeting on October 6, 2007

Shannon, signaling world peace with a 5 kilogram Sikhote Alin

Talking to a group of 3rd graders at The Galloway School about meteorites

Maddie and Sarah Jane with a 32.4 kilogram fresh Saharan chondrite

Checking out "A Slice of Space" with David Hardy

Near the end of an unsuccessful hunt in New Mexico after trying my luck at a dry salt lake bed in Roosevelt County and having driven almost 800 miles that day chasing limited reports of a video-taped fireball -- top stuff!

Connor holding a chunk of the planet Mars!

Spending some time with the Georgia Mineral Society talking about rocks from space

With Jordan and Mars

With Jerry Armstrong after the privilege of a full day speaking to Cobb County's science teachers about the finer points of meteorites

With Ed Albin, the Fernbank Science Center's Meteorite Collection Curator, and a nice Pultusk specimen

Jerry Armstrong, renowned amateur astronomer and cosmic artist, with a 277 gram L'Aigle specimen

John Servold, a senior at Milton High School and a future geology student at Colorado State University holding the 277 gram L'Aigle specimen with a handwritten label from 1803

Jerry Armstrong and Claxton

Jerry Armstrong, Harlan Trammell, Tim Cantwell, me, Martha Brown, John Iacullo and Anita Westlake at the Inaugural Meteorite Association of Georgia meeting at Jerry's house

With Kris and Maddie at Meteor Crater's rim

Anita Westlake, a co-founder of the Meteorite Association of Georgia, with Martha Brown

Bob Haag and me holding a full slice of the beautiful Esquel pallasite

Maddie with the 3720 gram main mass of the Djermaia H chondrite witnessed fall of either February 18th or 25th in 1961 in Chad

With Maddie and the Holsinger Meteorite at Arizona's Meteor Crater

Zach with the 7270 gram main mass of the Sahara 99168 unclassified chondrite

Giving small meteorites to a classroom of 4th graders at Cogburn Woods Elementary

Katy with the 6210 gram main mass of the Bassikounou H5 witnessed fall of October 16, 2006, in Mauretania

With Bob Haag and the main mass of the Djermaia witnessed fall from 1961 in Chad