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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 ;-) |
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Zach working the Lorenz in the field |
The beginnings of a meteorite exhibit at Tellus Museum |
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Shauna in the right area |
Robert on target |
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Eric, Sean, Dad and Jerry |
Rocky Shipes with the remains of one of his 400-yard drives |
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With Robert Webb, Elachee's astronomer |
Talking sky rocks with Adam, Julian and Jose from Tellus Museum |
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On top of a peak at Glorieta Mountain |
With Michael Blood and Jerry Armstrong |
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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 |
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With Moritz and Dima in Arizona
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With 400 Palmer Middle School students all fired up about rocks on fire |
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Inspecting the famous Camp Verde meteorite with Frank Bopp at ASU
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With Laurence Garvie, ASU's curator of meteorites, and Allende |
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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 |
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Katy, Zach and Suzanna reenact the famous Claxton impact
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I'll keep that in mind... |
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With Marvin Kilgore and his enormous Fukang pallasite main mass |
Fun for all ages! |
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With Bob Haag, his new oriented diogenite and Robert Ward in Tucson |
Speaking to a group of magnate students at Kennesaw Mountain High School |
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Out in Tucson with Robert, Mohammed, Michael, Adam and Jim |
The proud owner of a new unclassified chondrite |
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Sunny with the Statesboro main mass |
Kris and the Statesboro main mass (photo by Maddie) |
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Connor, the budding meteorite collector and Georgia Tech placekicker |
With David Hardy, Statesboro, and David's meteorite collection |
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With Jim Strope and Michael Farmer at the Birthday Bash in Tucson |
Talking to Robert, a young rock enthusiast, after a Georgia Mineral Society meeting |
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With Robert Ward, his girlfriend, Shauna, Dad and Tom Bopp in Prescott, AZ |
With Debra Morrissette, Pieter Heydelaar and Mbale in Phoenix |
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Hunting the Holbrook strewn field |
At the remains of Nininger's original museum near Meteor Crater |
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Hunting the Franconia strewn field with Tom Bopp |
With Ruben Garcia at Franconia |
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A priceless look on a kid's face after giving him a small chondrite at a local mineral & gem show |
With Robert Ward and his incredible Dhofar 1143 recovery |
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Teaching a pre-K class at FasTracKids a little something about meteorites |
With Eric Olson at his home in Fayetteville, NC |
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With Jock Hornor, Robert Webb, Maddie and Peter Gordon at Elachee Nature Science Center |
Zach cutting his first weathered chondrite on 11.25.07 |
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With Darryl Pitt and his new hat in Tucson |
Bennett with two staples in life - a chunk of Mars and a bag of Cheetos |
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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 |
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Delivering a course on Meteoritics 101 to Cobb County's science teachers |
Jake on an interstellar meteorite recovery mission |
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Checking out some of Robert Ward's latest recovery photos with Bob Haag and Robert |
Sammy and a 37 gram Martian Shergottite |
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Working with a group of students at East Cobb Middle School |
Phoebe cutting her first weathered chondrite on a lapidary trim saw |
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Zach, at right, with his friends Bradley and Reagan from the Crooked Creek Crushers, gloved up to handle some rocks from space |
Shannon, signaling world peace with a 5 kilogram Sikhote Alin |
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Maddie and Sarah Jane with a 32.4 kilogram fresh Saharan chondrite |
In the FALLING ROCKS room with MAG at our second meeting on October 6, 2007 |
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Talking to a group of 3rd graders at The Galloway School about meteorites |
Kris with Cody and Divot...our black cat, Miranda (named after a moon, of course) is nowhere to be found, as usual |
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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! |
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Spending some time with the Georgia Mineral Society talking about rocks from space |
Dad with Bob Haag and his Zagami and Calcalong Creek jewels |
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With Jerry Armstrong after the privilege of a full day speaking to Cobb County's science teachers about the finer points of meteorites |
Connor holding a chunk of the planet Mars! |
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Jerry Armstrong, renowned amateur astronomer and cosmic artist, with a 277 gram L'Aigle specimen |
With Jordan and Mars |
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Jerry Armstrong and Claxton |
With Ed Albin, the Fernbank Science Center's Meteorite Collection Curator, and a nice Pultusk specimen |
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With Kris and Maddie at Meteor Crater's rim |
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 |
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Bob Haag and me holding a full slice of the beautiful Esquel pallasite |
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 |
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Anita Westlake, a co-founder of the Meteorite Association of Georgia, with Martha Brown |
Maddie and me with John and Earlene Schooler |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |