[meteorite-list] New Fall

[Ted Bunch]

Good grief guys - look at the braided stream - not France by any stretch or
any other "wet country"

Ted


On 3/6/08 4:35 PM, "mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com" <mmorgan at mhmeteorites.com>
wrote:

> I guess Bali Indonesia, new fall and good wines. Congrats!!
> Matt
> ----------------------
> Matt Morgan
> Mile High Meteorites
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
> 
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:12:12
> To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall
> 
> 
> 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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