Wyoming Meteorites/falls/bolides

[Tuberale]

Wyoming has a surface area of 97819 square miles. There should be a meteorite in every one of them, but far fewer have been discovered to date. They include:

Cloud Creek, unknown, 190 million years ago; Silver Crown, 11.6 kg., 1887; Willow Creek, 51 kg., 1914; Laramie County, over 40 kg., 1915; Albin, 37.6 kg., 1915; Bear Lodge, 48.5 kg, 1931; Clareton, 1050 gr, 1931; Pine Bluffs, 2.7 kg, 1935; Hawk Springs, 367 gr., 1935; Hat Creek, 8.9 kg., 1939; Lusk, 46 gr., 1940; Torrington, 259.1 gr., 1944; Waltman, 23.41 kg., 1948; Albin, 15.4 kg.; 1949; Jenny's Lake Fireball, only daytime film of a meteor which entered the Earth's atmosphere, but did not strike the Earth, Aug. 10, 1972; Rock Springs, 52.7 gr., 2003.

 

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[terrible1]

There are several of us who have found potential meteorites in those areas, problem is that everyone keeps telling us they arent meteorites.

 

[Tuberale]

There are more meteorite wannabes than meteorites. Proof is in the content. Get an accurate assay. Costs about $500.

Most people cannot identify a meteorite in hand.

Magnetite, iron ore and iron slag are very commonly mistaken for a meteorite. One of the keys for meteorite identification are called regmaglympts. Find out what that term means, and you will reduce the meteorite-might-bes by at least 80%.