[meteorite-list] Larry's Holbrook Holy Grail Find

[Thetoprok at aol.com]

Hello Dave, Rubin, John G and List,

I  want to thank everyone for the kind comments, both public and private, I'm 
happy  to have made a small splash in the big meteorite pond. A special 
thanks goes out  to Dave Andrews for his hospitality while we visited his town, and 
most of all  for leading me right to the "Find of a Lifetime" or "Holy Grail 
of Holbrook" as  Dave so fondly called it within minutes of showing it to him. 
Thanks Dave, it  wouldn't have happened if you were not there. 
I'd like to show all the  pictures of the find, tell the story and comment on 
the conditions which the  meteorite was found, etc. However, I'm going to 
attempt my first article for  "Meteorite" magazine and I will share the story 
there.

Thanks again for  the nice words,
Larry Atkins

Also.. It was a great to meet a bunch of  you good folks down in Tucson. 
Moni, Mark Bowling, Ruben, Mr Grondine, all  others I can't name at the moment, it 
was my pleasure.
Mexico Doug, I thought  there still may be some fragments left in the 
Holbrook find site, but I decided  to leave them for the first fortunate soul to get 
there and mine the patch..  Lucky you too!  

In a message dated 2/12/2007 11:53:50 P.M. Eastern  Standard Time, 
dna1 at cableone.net writes:
Hola Johnny Q,
You may be right,  but as large as that piece was, it might have taken a 
couple of years or so  for it to be washed or eroded out.  But you are 
right, it was found  near the top of a mound....just slightly down from 
the top.  Even one  fragment was found under a cow pie.  ;-)

The miniscule 69 gms. I  found that day (largest fragment 43 gms...one of 
my better days),  just  didn't seem worth fussing over after Larry's 
whopper "Holy Grail"  find.  ;-)

I hope we can post some pictures with some meaning and  size scale to 
it.  I have some.  The pictures Mark posted (thanks  Mark) have no 
indication as to size.  Also, I think  that "minus"  the fragment 
weights, should be worded "plus" the fragment weights.  I  know that 
piece is at least a kilo in weight.  Maybe the largest  Holbrook in 30 
yrs. or so?  Maybe Steve Schoner could refresh our  memory on his/or 
others finds?  I know he has found some large ones in  the past.

As far as Bernd's question as to the distribution of large to  small 
stones, I see no pattern whatsoever.  Seems to my personal  experience, 
the larger ones are in the middle of the north side.   However, there are 
records of 5 lbs. found on the south side in 1969.   (Everet Gibson, I 
believe).  I/we've found a lot of stuff on the south  side, but as to 
when I was there, nothing of size larger than 20 gms....then  came Maria 
last year.  She found 100g or so of an individual in the  eastern past on 
the south side.  Nothing that says the larger ones are  found in the 
furthest part of the strewnfield. 

I've been working on  finding things further from the horizontal and 
vertical plane of the  field.  I feel in the last few years that we have 
expanded the 2 mile x  1/2 mile rule by quite a bit. I'm only sharing 
this info because it really  isn't easy to just walk in here and find 
something substantial.   Well....I take that back...Larry just did it.

Congrats to Larry....don't  know how you did it, but you did it.

Dave
(Sending this as plain text  in hopes it will be  posted)
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