Coloma News

This image provided by NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a meteor over Reno Nevada Sunday April 2. The former space rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth s atmosphere around 8 in the morning.

A UC Davis, geologist is appealing for public help in tracking down pieces of the meteorite that blew up over El Dorado County on April 22.

David Girard Vineyards between Placerville and Coloma has completed a 7,000-square-foot viticulture galleria on a high knoll overlooking its 85 acres of vineyards, Mark Anderson writes in his blog.

Fragments of the Sutter's Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr.

But that is the drama unfolding in and around the community of Lotus, Calif., along the South Fork of the American River in El Dorado County.

But that is the drama unfolding in and around the community of Lotus, Calif., along the South Fork of the American River in El Dorado County.

Since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded April 22, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

CM type carbonaceous chondrite fragments found in California that were part of a "minivan size" meteor that exploded over the western U.S. on Earth Day.

Scientists today are mounting a massive search in the Sierra Nevada foothills for meteorite fragments that may hold clues to extraterrestrial life.

Auburn's River Townsend displays a meteorite he found Saturday in the Coloma area following an explosion of fragments of a meteor above Northern California April 22.

In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California's Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

And in the central valley of California, a brilliant fireball exploded in full daylight Sunday morning! The sonic boom generated by the explosion of the California led to a flood of calls to 911.