[meteorite-list] New West totals

[tett]

Teddy,

Thanks!  I too could not get away and hunt and I appreciate the work you 
are putting into this.

Cheers!

Mike Tettenborn
Owen Sound, Ontario


teddy applebaum wrote:

> A lot more of West has been recovered since I last posted find totals

> over a week ago, and this list isn’t even complete. A number of

> hunters are planning more trips, or may even still be out there. Some,

> like Mike Farmer say they will post their revised totals when they are

> done collecting, so we can expect these numbers to change. That said,

> these numbers should give a better idea of how much West has been

> collected; and it’s quite a lot more then originally projected. I have

> reordered the numbers from highest weight totals to lowest. Enjoy.

> 

> 1.	Steve Arnold: 69 stones, total: 2362g

> 2.	Micheal Farmer: 26 stones, total: 2066.92g

> 3.	Unknown owner: 1 stone, total: 1700g

> 4.	Robert Woolard: and son 7 stones, total: 407 grams

> 5.	Mike Miller: 8 stones totaling: 365g (212g)

> 6.	MexicoDoug, Dima and Rob's group: 16 stones, total: 360g

> 7.	Micheal Cottingham: 18 stones, total: 286g

> 8.	Greg Hupe: 12 stone total: 268g (50g)

> 9.	Rob Wesel: 9 stones, total: 255 g

> 10.	Dave Gheesling 2 stones, total: 255g (104.9g, 150.1g)

> 11.	Ruben Garcia: 15 stones’ total: 197g  (12.6g)

> 12.	Geoff Notkin: 13 stones total: 116.8 (18.8g,)

> 13.	Bob Haag: 4 stones, total:89g

> 14.	14. Del Waterbury: 5 stones totaling: 75.3g     (8g, 5,6g, 5.2g, 5.5g, 51g,)

> 15.	Mike Bandli: 6 stones, total:  53.715g

> 16.	John Sinclair: 4 stones, total: 43.91g (5.77g, 9.84g, 13.55g, 14.75g

> 17.	Greg Stanley: 1 stone, total: 42g

> 18.	James Phillips: 4 stones, total: 36.3

> 19.	Art Ehlmann: 1 stone (not his?) total: 35g

> 20.	Friend of Woolard: 1 stone, total: 31.7g

> 21.	Matt Morgan: 2 stones, total: 22.5 (11.5g, 11g)

> 22.	Ron DiIulio and Co.:2 stones, total: 20.3g (13.6, 6.7)

> 23.	Mike Morgan: 1 stone total: 13g

> 24.	Eric Wichman: 1 stone, total: 6.7 grams

> 25.	Jim Baxter: 1 stone from Mike Farmer, total: 5.9g

> 26.	Lesa Lambert and Steve Dunklee 1 stone, total: 0.45g

> 27.	Patrick Thompson: 15 stones total: unknown

> 28.	Keith and Dana Jenkerson: 4 stones, total: unknown

> 

> Totals: 230 stones with known weights = 9114.495g + at least 19 other

> known stones lacking weights + unknown numbers from these hunters:

> 

> Jim Schade

> Sonny Clary

> Shauna Russel

> Robert Ward

> Gary Curtiss

> Derek Bower

> 

> Totals: 230 stones with known weights = 9114.495g, averaging out to

> 39.6g per stone.

> 

> However, that average is inflated by 2 stones weighing 1.7 and

> 1.5kilos. The average excluding those stones is 25.9g per stone.

> 

> On a personal note, a few people have publicly wondered why I am

> helping collect this data. I am a 22-years-old student/journalist

> currently living in RI with a passion for meteorites and a growing

> fixation on the idea of hunting for them. If I could have afforded to

> be go to Texas I would have dropped everything to hunt the West fall.

> However, I am currently poor and therefore decided I would do what I

> could to help from home instead. I noticed that a number of list

> members were asking for aggregated data on the West fall and thought I

> could step up and help fill that void. There is no ulterior motive for

> this, just an interest in helping where I can. Clearly I have no

> expertise to offer, just a knack for research and little spare time.

> Hope that clears things up. I will post again when more data comes in.

> Cheers – Teddy A

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