[meteorite-list] West hunt notes.

[Michael Bross]

Hi Michael (and listers)

It has been great for me , new to this list, to follow the hunt in West.
And glad to see people like you still trying to recover as much as possible 
before
it is too late !

There are other posts I would have liked to answer to, there are just too 
many !
All the best
Michael B, France


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:41 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] West hunt notes.


>
> After spending a few hours and 10 miles of walking today, I found a 25 
> gram complete meteorite. The heavy rain is taking it's toll on the West 
> meteorite pieces. The stone I found was showing signs of oxidation. 
> Strangly a large metal nodule shows no problems but there are spots on the 
> crust with rust starting to show. Overall though, the stone is almost as 
> good as the originals.
> The ground here is saturated, every step is a sloshing/sinking feeling. 
> The area got over 5-6 inches of rain, all ponds are pretty much full or 
> overflowing, and Ash Creek where Greg Hupe found the famous "mud stone" 
> was clearly a raging torrent only 24 hours ago. Today that spot was under 
> 3 or 4 feet of water. Thankfully Greg saved a wonderful meteorite from 
> oblivion.
> I expect to be here another day or so, then get back to Tucson and start 
> sorting the Tucson show goodies, and updating my website.
> Michael Farmer
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