[meteorite-list] First Cold find for 2007

[Norm Lehrman]

Sonny,

Waaaaaaay to go!!!

Regards,
Norm
(http://TektiteSource.com


--- wahlperry at aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    After spending about two hours of hunting I found
> a 34 gram fragment 
>  from an old weathered chondrite. The magnet jumped
> to it like a piece 
> of steel. I spent about an hour walking around
> looking for the rest of 
> the meteorite. From the looks of the fragment and
> surface that I was 
> hunting it could not be too far. I decided to try
> the metal detector on 
> the fragment, it was a real loud signal. Within
> minutes I found 4 more 
> pieces 34,17,135 grams. All of the fragments were
> buried a couple 
> inches deep. I had a loud signal about 6' from the
> first target. I 
> started digging, the first 10 " was hard dirt with
> fist sized rocks. 
> The signal got louder and I thought it must have
> been a hot rock in the 
> hole. Four more inches down under some more rocks
> was a 2.65lb chunk of 
> meteorite. None of the smaller pieces fit onto the
> large meteorite. The 
> chunk looks like a third of the meteorite.The
> fragments all look the 
> same, my guess it is all from the same meteorite. I
> will have to bring 
> a shovel and dig the hole deeper. The meteorite
> looks like it is a OC . 
> The total weight so far is 3.16 lbs. The meteorite
> is from a new area 
> with no previous finds in Nevada. I will post some
> pictures next week.
> 
> Sonny
>
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