[meteorite-list] New Fall!

[Paul Harris]

Hi Eric,

Just in case you did not see this earlier on the list...
http://astro-artifacts.com/Astroartifacts/tollgate.html

Paul



Eric Wichman wrote:
> 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
>
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