[meteorite-list] New Fall

[Zelimir Gabelica]

South of France ? (a recent fall "vanished" there a few weeks ago, not far 
from a famous wine area....).
Just a modest guess as I am not sure you could have so easily planned such 
a trip...

Anyway, superb!
Congrats!

Zelimir






A 13:12 06/03/2008 -0600, mccartney a écrit :

>I've just returned from a new fall.   It looked like everyone missed this 

>fall, so I went.

>

>I spent 2 weeks down there  hunting down stones, and canvasing the area 

>house by house.  Its mainly agricultural land and dominated by 

>vineyards.  Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards, so no more 

>stones will be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in the coming years)  Most of my time 

>was spent in public outreach and teaching people how to identify stones.

>

>TKW is 5 kg at this time.  I recovered 2.3kg.  Looks like an H4 or H5 

>Ordinary Chondrite.

>

>Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all stones punched into the 

>soft ground 1/4 meters.  Those stones that were recovered were because 

>they hit near someone or hit a road.

>

>http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg

>http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg

>http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg

>

>I've got to get my saw up and running and cut specimens in the next few 

>days. I'll post more details later.

>

>Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?

>

>-mt

>

>

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Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
Université de Haute Alsace
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