[meteorite-list] New Fall

[Armando Afonso]

Spain, right?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leigh Anne DelRay" <delraygoddess at yahoo.com>
To: <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall



> ha.. I love how McCartney makes it into a game..

> congrats on your finds.

>

> -Leigh Anne

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> --- mccartney <mccartney at blackbearddata.com> wrote:

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>> 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

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>> 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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