[meteorite-list] New Fall

[Meteoriteshow]

Hi,

WELL DONE!

My guess is somewhere in Europe where vineyards can be found, such as France 
(as Zelimir mentioned), Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, ...
Actually I think of Switzerland.

What should the winner win? A slice of the New Fall?!!!

Actually for cutting it, i also always used water with stony meteorites, 
then putting them in the oven at about 50°C for drying them immediately 
after rincing and never got any rusting problem. I only used alcohol when 
cuting my C4 with a wire saw.

Well done again and all the best.

Frederic Beroud
www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA #2491


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:12 PM
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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