[meteorite-list] New Fall!

[Eric Wichman]

Hey there,

The country is the United States. The Wine country referred to is 
Oregon... They have 15 wine regions in the state. There was a recent 
Fall up there that no one seems to be talking about much on list or 
anywhere for that matter. The Washington/Oregon Meteor that was seen 
all across the northwest on February 19th which come to think of it 
just happens to be perfect timing given the time frame for the 
"Return from a New Fall." and the "spent 2 weeks down there". Plus 
the entire area up there where the meteorite is supposed to have 
impacted is nothing but agricultural area with mountains to the Southeast.

The "down there" is simply a misdirection... ;) clever

Maybe I'm wrong but that's my guess...

Eric
www.MeteoriteWatch.com
www.MeteoiritesUSA.com

P.S. NICE ROCKS! Beautiful... I want one... ;)



At 12:36 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>-----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