*Check out the amazing slideshows I put on youtube. Search; NewMoonMeteorites
I am not a meteorite scientist or collector, but I studied Geology at UNH, so I know a bit about Earth rocks. In 1993, while working on the family property in Central NH, I found a 90 lb. rock that I was fairly certain was a meteorite. November, 2018 I started researching and got a microscope and a chemical analysis, and had 10 thin section slides made.
IMPORTANT METEORITE FACT: If a rock has a coating of glass on it's surface, (melted rock/fusion crust), it is a meteorite. Earth rocks don't have glass coatings on their surfaces. It's black on most meteorites, but depending on the rock type and degree of melting, can be any color, including white, clear, and metallic.
IMPORTANT METEORITE FACT #2: Lunar meteorites are known to look very similar to Earth rocks, similar chemistry. MOST OF THE MOON IS WHITE ROCK, (felsite, granite, gabbro, impact melt, quartz) called anorthosite. The dark spots you see on the moon are basalt, cooled lava/magma. Most of what has been found on Earth is basalt, (black, iron rich), until March of 2019.
December, 2018 New England Meteorite Testing and Maine Mineral and Gem Museum looked at my thin sections with their own microscopes. Both concluded that my rock is just a rock, not the largest Lunar meteorite on Earth, (at the time). All the thin sections clearly show S6 shock veins, melt pockets, and ringwoodite, which are only found on meteorites/impact rocks from large impacts. Did they just miss all the shock veins, melt pockets and ringwoodite in my million dollar meteorite, or lie to me?
January of 2019, Dr. Melinda Hutson, curator of Cascadia Meteorite Lab at Portland State University looked at my chemical analysis and wrote that "it's a Lunar basalt if you can get thin sections showing glass on the surface".
Before I got around to that project, I looked into a story I'd heard 15 years before. I quickly found Bob, who knew nothing about my meteorite, but he had a fairly similar meteorite that his brother found in his corn field one spring in the "1950's or '60's". Bob told me that a friend of his had a very large one like his in her back yard. Within a few weeks I had meteorites from a strewn field covering several hundred square miles, lots of them anorthosite, with lots of thick, beautiful fusion crust. My guess is it fell during one of the large winter storms during the heavy-snow winters of 1959-61, or hurricane Carol and Edna '54, with "widespread tree damage". I got 3 more chemical analysis, 3 in total match known Lunar basalts and 1 matches NASA's Lunar granite.
While exploring the strewn field I immediately noticed a significant amount of serious tree damage, scrapes and gouges on the broken trunks and limbs, and smears of a black glossy substance, with bits of rock fragments in it, and melted looking boulders near the base of the damaged trees, (see fusion crust on oak listing photos). Fusion crust on broken trees has never been found before.
May, 2019, after The Smithsonian dismissed my claims, I sent a 240 character email, (all they permit) to NASA, followed by another email and 2 phone messages that summer. No reply.
July, 2020, UNH Biology Department Chair was unable to identify the glass-like coating/smear on hundreds of strangely broken trees. She sent it for chemical analysis which shows it to be a glass composed of mostly silica, then aluminum, calcium, magnesium, (same ratios as the Lunar granite from near the tree sampled. There is no other scientific possibility for glass smears on a tree, broken or not. That chemical analysis posted in photos of sample for sale. I asked if she could notify NASA of these findings. UNH has worked closely with NASA for many years, many millions of dollars. No reply. I made the same request of the Geology Chair and the President of UNH the previous winter, no reply.
I also had more thin section slides made, showing cross-sections of glass fusion crust on the surface of 6 small anorthosite meteorites, one with chemical analysis matching NASA's Lunar granite. Thin sections are the most solid proof you can get for a meteorite. (thin section images posted with smaller cut meteorites for sale, and on youtube slideshows).
I sent Dr. Melinda Hutson the links to my thin section slideshow, and the other ones too, and offered to send samples and thin sections for her to register the strewn field in November, 2020. She replied, "They don't look like meteorites". "I'm sorry, I can't help you". No explanation. No mention of ANY of my evidence. No questions, no interest. Nothing. Strange.
Other great quotes:
The Smithsonian, about my original 90 lb Lunar basalt, "No fusion crust or other characteristics of meteorites.", and "We don't look at chemical analysis that were performed elsewhere".
I then sent photos of a dozen amazing, obvious, recently found meteorites, (anorthosites), microscopic photos of fusion crust on meteorites and on broken trees. They wrote, "none of them look like meteorites and fusion crust is NOT found on trees".
Harvard Geology/Mineral Museum, "No average person has ever found a meteorite." and "If there were that many meteorites up there, we would already know about it".
MIT Planetary Program, "The iron levels are too low to be meteorites", apparently forgetting about our closest planetary body, THE MOON.
Randy Korruptev, Washington U., St. Louis, about my original meteorite, "I wouldn't waste my money on a chemical analysis if it were my rock." and later, about recently found meteorites and chemical analysis, "Those aren't meteorites"
Dr. Turd, Curator of Meteorite Museum, U. of Alberta, Canada, "That's not fusion crust, those aren't meteorites, there's no strewn field, that's not glass on the trees. Stop sending photos."
June 14, 2021, Phone call from Senator Shaheen's office, (She's a Senior Senator on the NASA oversight committee). "Meteorite National Park proposal to Senate appropriations committee Wednesday".
2.5 years. The End.
8/27/21, The Madison Boulder is a Lunar meteorite that fell 17,000 years ago, (exposure of surface to solar radiation tested in 2014). Microscopic photos of glass on surface are really cool! See slideshow on youtube.
5/15/22, After learning of the very unusual lithium discovery in Western Maine, I studied hikers' photos and videos of Step Falls in Maine, near the lithium deposit, then many of the other White Mountains and Longfellow Mountains and saw that the shaping and surface features are identical to the Madison Boulder Meteorite and the main mass and large boulders of the 68 year old strewn field. That means the entire White Mountain range and the Longfellow Mountains in Maine are likely a very large Lunar meteorite strewn field that fell 17,000 years ago. That also means that's Lunar lithium, explaining the super high concentration. There is a crater on the far side of the moon that is 1,600 miles wide, 5 miles deep. No, no crater on Earth, the atmosphere would slow the rock to terminal velocity, (280 mph) due to the slow speed it would be entering the atmosphere.
It is entirely within the realm of possibility that the Ossipee Mountain Ring Dike is a whole Lunar crater, a crater that was ejected from the moon's surface and landed on Earth in one piece. The mineralogical pattern of an impact crater would be similar to that of a volcanic ring dyke, just different causality.
*Slide shows on youtube. Search: NewMoonMeteorites
With each piece, I provide a signed and dated description card, proof of sale by me, the person who discovered the strewn field and legally collected the piece from my property within the strewn field. 14 day returns ok. Insured, well-packed shipping.