[meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley

[mckinney trammell]

good stuff- i got a smoker from hardy that is 70% ETCHED IRON that resides royally in my frame of finer skyrox.


--- On Sat, 6/14/08, bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:

> From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 4:55 PM
> Mike Farmer writes:
> 
> "I found one stone, and bought many more for a total
> of more than 15 kilos."
> 
> and: "Happy Birthday to one of my favorite
> meteorites"
> 
> 
> A very enthusiastic Mike Farmer sent me this mail on Wed,
> 22 Jul 1998:
> 
> "Bernd, I just returned from the UofA where most of
> the analysis is being done.
>  They loved this piece. It is quite obvious that this
> chondrite was smashed in
>  a huge shock event and metal flowed into the stone crushed
> pieces. I wish they
>  were all this nice! I had to pay over $...*/ gram for this
> slice and I will try
>  to get another since it is so incredible."
> 
> * amount canceled by me because I don't know if Mike
> wants to keep this private
> 
> Best wishes from the happy owner of  an 11.5-gram
> metal-poor slice (M. Farmer),
> a 3.9-gram metal-rich slice (M. Blood) and a PV thin
> section (M. Farmer),
> 
> Bernd
> 
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