[meteorite-list] New Fall

[pkmorgan at ctcweb.net]

I was going to guess Chile as well.  Maybe somewhere between Santiago and
New Zealand.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431624

Phil



>>From Texas: Down there? Vineyard?  ---> Chile?
>
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> From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:12 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall
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>> I've just returned from a new fall.   It looked like everyone missed
>> this
>> fall, so I went.
>>
>> I spent 2 weeks down there  hunting down stones, and canvasing the area
>> house by house.  Its mainly agricultural land and dominated by
>> vineyards.
>> Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards, so no more stones
>> will
>> be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in the coming years)  Most of my time was spent
>> in
>> public outreach and teaching people how to identify stones.
>>
>> TKW is 5 kg at this time.  I recovered 2.3kg.  Looks like an H4 or H5
>> Ordinary Chondrite.
>>
>> Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all stones punched into
>> the
>> soft ground 1/4 meters.  Those stones that were recovered were because
>> they hit near someone or hit a road.
>>
>> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg
>> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg
>> http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg
>>
>> I've got to get my saw up and running and cut specimens in the next few
>> days. I'll post more details later.
>>
>> Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?
>>
>> -mt
>>
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