[meteorite-list] GIVEAWAY FREEBIE! - First Responder Gets It...!!

[Galactic Stone & Ironworks]

Hi List!

Everyone can stop replying.  We have a winner - Bernd Pauli! :)

I received several correct responses, but Bernd was the first (by
barely a minute) to respond with all 3 correct answers.

He are the questions and answers :

1) Okechobee is one of 5 approved meteorites from Florida.  Okechobee
was found in 1916 under somewhat unusual circumstances - it was not
your typical find.   Where and how was this L4 meteorite recovered?

As stated in the Catalogue of Meteorites -

"Fragments weighing about 1kg were brought up in a net some 0.75 miles from
the shore..."

Apparently this meteorite was underwater and raised by fishing nets.
Now, what are the chances that a fisherman was going to see this
apparent ugly rock as a meteorite and think to save it?  I'd love to
know the full story of this recovery.  I can imagine that an L4
chondrite laying on the bottom of a body of water would be heavily
oxidized and covered in algae.  It probably didn't look like a
meteorite at all - especially to a fisherman.  Why didn't he throw it
back?

2) Which of these lunar meteorites has the longest measured cosmic
exposure age? Dhofar 025 or Kalahari 009?

Dhofar 025 by far - Kalahari 009 is one of the youngest of cosmic
exposure ages.

3) 1979 was a busy season for Japanese meteorite researchers in
Antarctica.  How many meteorites did they find that year in the Yamato
Mountains area?

A close number would suffice here.  The Catalogue of Meteorites states
that 3690 meteorites were recovered.  The Met Bulletin states a
slighty different figure.  I would have accepted any number 3600 or
greater.  Bernd nailed it - he must have a copy of the Catalogue
handy. ;)

My thanks to everyone who responded!

Best regards and clear skies,

MikeG