Plotkin, Howard and Clarke, Roy S., Jr. 2012. The Controversial History of the Goose Lake, California, Meteorite. Earth Sciences History, 31(2): 229-246.
Plotkin, Howard, Clarke Jr., Roy S., McCoy, Timothy J. and Corrigan, Catherine M. 2012. The Old Woman, California, IIAB iron meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 47(5): 929-946. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01348.x
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.
