[meteorite-list] New Fall

[Ted Bunch]

Good grief guys - look at the braided stream - not France by any stretch or
any other "wet country"

Ted


On 3/6/08 4:35 PM, "mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com" <mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com>
wrote:


> I guess Bali Indonesia, new fall and good wines. Congrats!!

> Matt

> ----------------------

> Matt Morgan

> Mile High Meteorites

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>

> 

> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:12:12

> To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall

> 

> 

> 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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