[meteorite-list] West Meteorite tally, PLEASE let's get this one right

[Fries, Marc D]

This scientist could only make it there for one and a half days, on my own
dime, and would have loved to stay.  A downside of our profession is that
most of us have to account for our (fairly pricey) time and don¹t have much
in the way of flexibility.

I¹m very interested in seeing the tally from this fall.  Even better would
be a detailed strewn field map with locations and masses, but even a rough
depiction of the strewn field long axis (axes?) would be great stuff.  Seems
to me that a downside of your profession is that that information is used to
support yourselves and so becomes proprietary.  I understand that, but it is
a real loss scientifically speaking.

Cheers,
Marc Fries

On 3/3/09 9:06 PM, "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I join Robert in requesting an exact stone count and weight tally in order to
> get this fall as close as possible to exact number of stones and TKW.
> 
> I have the following
> 
> Woolard 7  =  407g
> Wesel 10 =  255g
> Farmer 23 = 531.6g
> 
> I know that more than 45 meteorite hunters showed up in the field, so come on
> guys, lets get the tally done as fast as possible so we can firm up the TKW on
> this fantastic new fall.
> 
> Let's show the scientists that we as collectors can compile data and properly
> record a new fall all by ourselves. By the way, the one thing I never did run
> into down there was a single scientist.
> Pity, some of them hate collectors and dealers, but when a fall occurs, they
> are nowhere to be seen or collect a stone and rush off to the lab forgetting
> that there are hundreds if not thousands of other stones left to rot.
> 
> Michael Farmer
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