[meteorite-list] Happy Easter / 2 Year PF Aniv.

[Bob Evans]

Ryan,

Try to imagine waking up and finding hundreds of fresh meteorite fragments 
scattered in the grass in your front lawn. For me this is where I spent the 
first day of the fall. It took me 10 hours to clean out the majority of 
these fragments from the lawns.
Whats amazing is that there were other people searching along side of me and 
my wife. They would find a few and leave to look elsewhere. Even though the 
impact in the street was apparent and the volume of fragments scattered was 
obvious. But, you had to get on your knees and sift through the grass. Many 
of the frags were smaller than a gram. I only wish I had a large magnet that 
day. I would certainly have found considerably more, they would have popped 
right out of the grass.
As we searched there was a helicopter hovering above more than likely 
looking for a impact crater. Not many people were there yet. Steve Witt was 
already on the scene hunting and offering cash for finds. This was the most 
opportune time. I was paying $1/gram and less for some specimens. Not many 
to buy at this point though. There was a guy on Winslow St. that came up to 
me and questioned what I was doing , I discussed meteorites with him for a 
few minutes and then went back to sifting the grass. A few minutes later the 
man came up to me with several frags in his hand ( maybe 20 grams ) and 
handed them to me. I just gave him a strange look and he told me he didn't 
want them. After this things would only get more competitive. Everyone was 
on their way. I didn't even know about the list when PF fell.
The following day I met Mike farmer for the first time on Winslow St. He had 
purchased his first fragment from Chris Gasco.
Mike and I headed over to Olympia Fields to investigate the Phil Jones 
stone. No luck there we checked the police station, they said they didn't 
have it. Apparently Phil Jones was wiser than the rest. He didn't see any 
reason to drop off his treasure at the police station. The stone was 
actually with his wife at his kids gradeschool for a little show and tell.
Mike and I wound up back at Winslow St. and got into a bidding war with a 
local guy who basically drove the price up from $1/gram to $10. Mike and I 
were royally pissed it after that. Mike did win the bidding war though. He 
got some nice large specimens for around $2,000. I think he got close to a 
kilo from that purchase.

Well, off to Easter breakfast. I did want to take a pic of this 62 gram PF 
frag that I have that has a little bit of everything( Imbedded tree bark, 
vinyl siding imbedded in the crust and regmaglypts) to share with everyone 
as well as more stories of the PF experience.

Have a great Easter everbody !!

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RYAN PAWELSKI" <yellowengine at earthlink.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:23 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy Easter / 2 Year PF Aniv.


> Good Early Morning,
>
> I just wanted to say Happy Easter to all on the list who celebrate this 
> holiday. And a happy 2 year aniversary of the Park Forest fall to everyone 
> around the world! It was 2 years ago to date that all of us awoke in glory 
> to hear the great news that a meteorite had found it's path to the 
> southwest suburbs of Chicago, IL.  I sure hope to see more posts relating 
> to the Park Forest fall on the list in the days ahead, because so far I 
> have seen nothing.  Must not we forget one of the greatest meteorite falls 
> in current U.S. history. Although I found no specimens of my own, it was 
> an honor to be a part of the hunt. If only then I had the knowlege that I 
> have know, maybe I would have come home with something of my own. 
> Patiently waiting the next heavenly gift to find it's way to the good ol' 
> U-S-OF-A.  Let's hope it's sometime in the near future, even if it's one 
> of smaller proportions.  Have a great day!
>
> Ryan
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