[meteorite-list] First Cold find for 2007

[wahlperry at aol.com]

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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