   Meteorite Hunting Adventures from across the U.S.A. and Southwest Deserts
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 Welcome to NevadaMeteorites.com. Home of American meteorite hunter Sonny Clary. This Web page contains meteorite
hunting adventures throughout the United States. Many of the hunting adventures are from the Mohave Desert to the Isolated
desert of Nevada and Arizona. The Mohave Desert can climb well above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer to below
freezing in the winter. The average rain fall for the Mohave Desert is less than 5 inches . The low rain fall and arid climate
make the Southwest Deserts a prime location to hunt for meteorites. The barren dry lake beds to the flat top mountains are
all ideal locations to search. Many of my adventures are spent traveling the back country roads in search of prime hunting
grounds. Other meteorite hunting adventures are spent hiking across Dry lake beds looking for that out of place or strange
looking rock that may hold the secrets from the universe. I have hunted areas from weeks to months without luck. On other
trips I have found meteorites within minutes of searching . Many of the new meteorite finds are single stone finds and others
turning out to be part of a large strewnfield covering many miles in all directions. It's hard to describe the thrill of walking into
an area with meteorites in all directions ( over one hundred twenty pounds ) with thousands of fragments littering the ground
then returning to find pieces that would indicate a much larger mass could be buried in the area . One of my original finds
started out with the discovery of a single stone meteorite. Many months would pass before I decided to return to the location
of the first find. Within two hours of hiking in the area, I found my second piece. Almost every trip to the area would produce
a new meteorite. I have found over 90 meteorites with more than 25 pounds of material from this one location. One of my
rarest finds would be U.S.A's first Rumurti chondrite. It is the only one of this classification type found in the United States .
Only 92 R chondrites have been found world wide. Over the last 5 years I have found numerous meteorites from different
locations Many of the meteorites are still waiting to be classified. You can see some of the meteorites that I have recovered
throughout this web page and by viewing Meteorites Awaiting Classification page 1 .
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Classified Meteorite Finds By Sonny Clary
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 Coyote Springs NV
 Palo Verde Mine AZ
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 Starvation Flat NV
 Blue Eagle Well NV
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 Chicago valley
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 Moapa Valley CM1
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The meteor that caused the massive crater struck about 50,000 years ago. The size of the meteor was 40 to 50 meters across and weighed
in the order of 100,000 tons ! The speed upon impact was around 20 kilometers per second and released the energy equivalent to around
20 million tons of TNT. All life within a radius of around 20 kilometers was destroyed by the impact.
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