The Ash Creek meteorite, formerly known as the West, Texas meteorite, fell the morning of Feb 15, 2009. Seen from Austin and caught on film, it was headed west. It was seen from Dallas, Houston, Fredericksburg and other places in Texas. The sonic boom of the explosion rocked McLennan county. Near the small town of Birome, some windows were broken.
I was on News 8 within 36 hours predicting the meteorite would be found near Waco. The first reports of stones found came from the Mike Farmer team. The next morning I was in West at the strewnfield. The timing was bad, plowing was about to happen and we had to work fast. My first trip was 48 hours and I was mainly securing land permissions and trying to determine the strewnfield direction. The second trip I got to hunt more and recovered one stone.
ID #: AshCreek0-01 Weight : 0.01 g Price: $ 15.00 Notes: Specimen has 50% fusion crust
ID #: AshCreek4-2 Weight : 4.2 g Price: $ 336.00 Notes: Specimen displays about 5% fusion crust. Dimensions: 20 mm x 10 mm 2mm
ID #: AshCreek21-6 Weight : 21.6 g Price: $864.0.00 Notes: Very nice part slice about 5 mm thick and has been polished on one side. Fusion crust on 3/4 of the outer ring. Dimensions: 38 x 21 x 5 mm
ID #: AshCreek13-6 Weight : 13.6 g Price: $ SOLD Notes: Very nice part slice about 5 mm thick and has been polished on one side. Fusion crust on 1/2 of the outer ring. Dimensions: 38 x 21 x 5 mm
ID #: AshCreek22-2 Weight : 22.2 g Price: $ 888.00 Notes: Part slice about 3 mm thick and polished on one side.Outer ring has about 60% of fusion crust. nbsp; Dimensions: 40 x 33 x 3 mm
ID #: AshCreek13-1 Weight : 13.1g Price: $ 524.00 Notes: Specimen is 3 mm thick and one side is polished.Fusion crust on 85% of outer ring. Dimensions: 30 x 32 x 3 mm
ID #: AshCreek26-4 Weight : 26.4 g Price: $ 1068.00 Notes: Part slice about 4 mm thick and polished on one side. About 1/2 of outer ring has fusion crust. Dimensions: 46 x 35 x 4 mm
ID #: AshCreek38 Weight : 38 g Price: $ sold Notes: Nice end cut with about 75% fusion crust. Dimensions: 42 x 38 x 20 mm
ID #: AshCreek38-7 Weight : 38.7 g Price: $ 1548.00 Notes: Part slice about 4 mm thick and polished on one side. 3/4 of the outer ring has fusion crust. Dimensions: 50 X 31 X 4 mm
Individuals
ID #: AshCreek17-5 Weight : 17.5 g Price: $ SOLD Notes: Individual is 100% crusted with about 30% secondary fusion crust. Picture of this specimen found in the field can be see here .
ID #: AshCreek28-7 Weight : 28.7 g Price: $ 1291.50 Notes: This specimen has a silver line of unknown origin. Also there are many contraction cracks on this individual. It is composed of about 99% primary fusion crust but there is a small chip in the crust. This is the finest specimen found by Mc.Taylor, in his opinion. Extraordinary fusion crust texture.
Dear sirs i have found a 2 lb meteorite .Done the magnet test passed.and the tile test passed and the window test that passes to do want it tested where can i go to have it tested.Im in Glen Rose TX
Dear sirs i have found a 2 lb meteorite .Done the magnet test passed.and the tile test passed and the window test that passes to do want it tested where can i go to have it tested.Im in Glen Rose TX