San Bernardino Co. Old Woman Mountains, 3.5 road miles northeast on Old Woman Meteorite Road/NS465 from junction with Skeleton Pass Road/NS195, southwest of Brown's Wash. (Sheep Camp Spring: T4N R17E). NAD83., San Bernardino, California, United States, North America
San Bernardino Co. Browns Wash, Old Woman Mountains, Southern Mojave Desert. 29.5 mi northwest on Cadiz Road from Highway 62, then 5.1 mi north on Old Woman Meteorite Road (NS465). (Sheep Camp Spring: T4N R17E)., San Bernardino, California, United States, North America
San Bernardino Co. Browns Wash, Old Woman Mountains, Southern Mojave Desert. 29.5 mi northwest on Cadiz Road from Highway 62, then 7.1 mi north on Old Woman Meteorite Road (NS465). (Sheep Camp Spring: T4N R17E). Slight slope facing SW in sandy wash., San Bernardino, California, United States, North America
San Bernardino Co. Brown's Wash, Old Woman Mountains, Southern Mojave Desert. 29.5 mi northwest on Cadiz Road from Highway 62, then 7.1 mi north on Old Woman Meteorite Road (NS465). Hike 0.4 mi north in wash. (Sheep Camp Spring: T4N R17E)., San Bernardino, California, United States, North America
San Bernardino Co. Browns Wash, Old Woman Mountains, Southern Mojave Desert. 29.5 mi northwest on Cadiz Road from Highway 62, then 7.1 mi north on Old Woman Meteorite Road (Sheep Camp Spring: T4N R17E)., San Bernardino, California, United States, North America
Folder 24 Clarke, Roy S., Jr. Includes photographs and news stories on the Old Woman Meteorite found in 1986, as well as the Wethersfield, Connecticut, meteorites of 1971 and 1982
Collection Creator::
National Museum of Natural History. Public Information Officer Search this
Container:
Box 8 of 21
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 416, National Museum of Natural History. Public Information Officer, Records
Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Curator and Curator Emeritus in the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineral Sciences, is an authority on meteorites. This accession
consists of correspondence; data sheets; numerous photographs, slides and negatives; articles; sketches; and other materials relating to meteorite identification and research.
A significant amount of material relates to Antarctic Meteorites and the Old Woman Meteorite. The Old Woman Meteorite is the largest meteorite discovered in California (Barstow).
Clarke and several others helped to analyze, research and extract the meteorite. A large number of photographs document this process.
