[meteorite-list] Microwave my meteorites?

[David Freeman]

Dear Maria;
My neighbor is a white's detector salesman and a few years back he went 
to Odessa and hunted the field briefly in the 99 degree heat. His guide 
was none other than James Williams, Rocks from Space page 136.
Ron used the top of the line  two piece deep penetrating unit White's 
had out at the time.  The plan was to search 3-10 feet deep for items 
that the regular detector crowd had missed.   Between the heat and the 
pipelines in the area The deep seeking unit did not produce any 
meteorites in the four hours of searching.  Ron did find some real nice 
odessa's in Mr. Williams collection though. Ron felt with a better 
weather condition that he would have done much better but noted that 
Odessa is an old oil boom town and there is a great deal of metal 
around. Digging 10 foot holes for pipe thread protectors would not be 
productive so maybe the area would have to be a bit more primitive to 
have the deep penetrating radar be more successful.
No snow in my part of the rockies,
Dave F

JKGwilliam wrote:

> Maria,
> One of our list members, Keith Vazquez, has been using GPR for many 
> years and has used it to try and locate meteorites.  Keith is 
> currently recovering from some surgery and might be off his oats for a 
> while but I'm sure he'd be happy to post some info and stories to the 
> list.
>
> Best,
> John Gwilliam
>
> At 05:33 AM 4/11/2005, Maria Haas wrote:
>
>> I have lightly discussed with another listmember about using GPR 
>> (Ground Penetrating Radar). Perhaps someone could offer some info on 
>> how beneficial that is in the field.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Maria
>
>
>
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