Mr-Meteorite Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Hi all,Here is a nice larger Franconia Meteorite I found. It is my second largest in that particular strewnfield - my largest is over 7 lbs. Lets see your largest/Best finds at Franconia.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Soloman Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Holy Space Rock Ruben! :whaaaa: Now THAT'S a meteorite :whoope: - Nice! - Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Dang, Ruben...that is nice! I would show a picture of my big franconia...but, I didn't find it yet...Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nuggethunting Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Hey Ruben, Great find! Years and years ago I had a customer call and mentioned he thought he found a huge meteorite on him Mother's property. I wasn't much into meteorites, but knew about them. Comes to find out, he found two on the surface, one was 12+ lbs and the largest 17lbs. He found them both on his Mother's property. Not long after that the rush started at Franconia. I have some pictures somewhere if I can dig them up. Take care,Rob Allison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Nice hunk of rock Ruben, some day i may even find one much smaller than that great find, hanks for the great picGene in Washington State Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nighthawk Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Wow, Ruben, you found my meteorite that fell out of my pack... Way to go... Just teasing... That's a real beauty.... congrats... Did Hopper help out ??? hope you find many more :whoope: jim "bones" :zapped: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Meteorite Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 Wow, Ruben, you found my meteorite that fell out of my pack... Way to go... Just teasing... That's a real beauty.... congrats... Did Hopper help out ??? hope you find many more :whoope: jim "bones" :zapped: Hi all,This 5 plus pounder isn't a recent find. It was found in 2004 while hunting meteorites with Mike Miller, and a few guests we had invited out to try and find a Franconia specimen. One of those guests was Keith Vasquez who watched as I found that rock. He was so interested in having it in his collection that he offered me a 180 gram Glorieta pallasite in exchange. Of course, I was also the original finder of that specimen too so we made the trade. Recently Keith wanted a piece of my Rare Wilcox Playa meteorite so what do you think we did? That's right I cut a small piece off my rare meteorite and traded for over 5 pounds of Franconia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extractor Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 nice one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dez-perate 4 nugs Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 mine is in my profile pic to your left 2 lbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimi Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Aloha Ruben,As work has been really hectic here in Las Vegas I still need to find the third piece of my largest find to date. If I could spend about 2-3 days gridding the area I would either find it or know that someone out there has it. Only time will tell for sure.So far it weighs 794 grams put together. I found the smaller piece just sticking out of the surface and spent about 90 minutes looking south of that piece gridding off an area about 40 feet in each direction. DUH!! I should have gone north instead as the second piece was on the surface sitting tucked away against a large bush about 8 feet away. Aloha and hope to run into you out in the field soon.Stan aka Ka'imi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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