[meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Flaherty
grf2 at comcast.net
Fri Mar 5 11:27:42 EST 2010
So wonderful Count. Get another, even bigger. Maybe a Lunar!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: <countdeiro at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:34 PM
To: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> Alexander Seidel and List,
>
> Alexander asked that I share with him and the List the personal experience
> of having my first find be such a remarkable specimen. I am told by those
> who should know that this chondrite is the largest intact specimen so far
> found in Nevada. I would ask the List if this is so.
>
> Here's an account for those who wish to read about a "newbie" finding his
> first metorite.
>
> I began to study meteorites about a year ago as a diversion to take my
> mind off the two years of radiation and chemo treatments I had been
> undergoing for stage IV metastized cancer. I had responded well for a 72
> year old and was in remission. I needed some new pursuit to get my mental
> and physical health back. Little did I know that I was about to catch
> another disease..and this one incurable...the obsession with meteorites.
>
> After purchasing some sixty different types and classifications, a stereo
> scope and a cabinet for comparison purposes ...and reading numerous posts
> on List and dozens of papers, attending Tucson... putting faces on all
> whom I had met online... I decided I was ready to go into the field.
>
> I was fortunate to have made acquaintance with Sonny Clary who lives
> nearby. He had become my mentor, given me samples and shown me some
> pointers on hunting by taking me on a short local trip to look at an area
> of interest. We spent maybe two hours in the field. Sonny moves quickly,
> his acute vision and experience letting him cover a lot of ground in very
> little time. I found I was more comfortable going my own way and not
> slowing him up. Neither he, nor I, found anything.
>
> I have four grandsons and I spent a few hours in some vacant fields in Las
> Vegas throwing down weathered samples and demonstrating to them the use of
> the cane and detector. Ten year old , Vincent, was fascinated. The others
> non-plussed.
>
> Night before last, May 2nd., Sonny called late and invited me to spend my
> first full day hunting an area he felt was promising several hours away.
> We met at his home and loaded up the gear, food and water. Brix, his super
> Alsatian, whined excitedly knowing we were going on a hunt. Sonny has
> trained Brix to the point that the dog will bring him rocks in the field.
> No meteorites yet...but it will happen.
>
> We arrived in the desert around nine o'clock. The temperature was a
> pleasant 67 degrees under clear skies and no wind. We saddled up and
> agreed as to which way each of us would go. Sonny took off to the left and
> I to the right. Within minutes we were out of sight of each other. We did
> have a means of communicating electronically in the event of an emergency.
> Both of us are Nevadans and have spent years in the desert hunting game,
> Sonny meteorites and in my case, before it became illegal, early man
> artifacts.
>
> After several hours with no luck, we met back at the truck and traveled
> two miles north on the valley floor. After another hour or two of nothing
> but meteor wrongs picked up from the desert pavement, Sonny decided to
> expand our search area again several miles west.
>
> This time we were on excellent ground. Flat, with very little organic
> growth and hardly any rocks at all. If they were here, the meteorites
> would stand out prominently. Again, Sonny strode off northwest with Brix
> roaming in front of him. Brix has received snake avoidance training and a
> good thing, because the rattlers, including the feared "Mohave Green", are
> coming out of their dens this time of year to warm themselves, and shed
> their winter skin, making them ill tempered and aggressive. Sonny hunted
> with no assistance from cane, or detector. I used my staff with a circular
> neodymium magnet screwed on the end.
>
> I followed Sonny to the west, deciding to make the first leg of my search
> into the reduced visibility of the sun, so I could make the other two half
> mile legs with the sun at my side and rear to highlight the ground and
> prevent squinting. I have special tinted prescription glasses that provide
> some UV protection, reduce eye strain and sharpen the field of view.
>
> Sonny and Brix were quickly out of sight. About an hour and a half into
> things and while walking forward a few paces at a 45 degree angle to the
> left and then to the right, my scan picked up an irregular shape 50' to my
> right. It was so out of place as to shape and color that I knew
> immediately it was a possible. I turned and walked toward it. As I got
> within a few yards I could see that it had the familiar dark desert
> patination that I had studied on my Gold Basin samples. It was a three
> inch high tip sticking out of the ground like a triangular iceberg. I
> started to laugh out loud as I walked around it in a tight circle. Taking
> my cane, I carefully placed it close along side dangling it loosely
> between two fingers. Nevada chondrites tend to have low metal. The cane
> moved slowly against the rock. So subtle was it's movement that I didn't
> immediately believe it and had to do the exercise all around the tip. Each
> time it "clicked" I got a rush of excitement. Before I could contain
> myself, I reached down and grabbed the exposed tip and pulled. My hand
> slipped off.
>
> I began to dig with my hands. Down two inches. Still no movement. Step
> back. Put scale cube down. Take picture. Three more inches and shove it
> with your foot. No movement. More pictures and the thought of "How in the
> hell did I get this lucky?" Frantic digging like a rabid gopher. "How big
> was this thing?" "Wow" "Wait till Sonny sees this." Then I got greedy. I
> didn't want it to stop getting bigger, but finally at a depth of about
> nine inches I was able to go under the edge of the triangular shape. I
> stood up, put my foot against it and shoved. It came free from it's
> thousands of years entrapment in the desert floor. I had my first find.
>
> I called Sonny on cell. At first he thought I was joking, but when I
> offered a $100 wager if he came and found it was not a meteorite, he
> started his trek to my location. He arrived in fifteen minutes, the last
> few yards with a huge grin on his face and his arms out stretched. "Dude"
> he said. "You the man." We were like a couple of kids for a minute.
> Literally pounding each others fists and laughing. I have never seen Sonny
> so animated. Brix immediately went to the meteorite, and curling around
> it, he laid down on guard. It was his now.
>
> Count Deiro
> IMCA 3536
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Danken Ihnen für Ihre Glückwünsche. Ich spreche ein kleines Deutsch. Ich
> bin eine erste Generation Italiener/Amerikaner. Mein Vater wurde nahe an
> Torino geboren und meine Mutter war von Lyon. Ich habe viele Reisen nach
> Deutschland gemacht und ich habe Freunde in Hamburgs, Berlin, Frankfurten
> und München. Ich werde Ihnen meine kleine Geschichte auf Englisch
> erzählen. Ja habe ich viele Verwandte in Nördlichem Italien und ich
> besuche jedes Jahr.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
>>Sent: Mar 4, 2010 10:39 AM
>>To: countdeiro at earthlink.net
>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Sogar sehr gut, Count! :-) Wuerdest Du uns.... err, pardon, I should
>>better switch to my bad English, Sir!
>>
>>Wouldn´t you like to tell us about the details, Guido? I mean, what
>>exactly happened when you parted from Sonny Clary on your own track, how
>>long did it take you to realize there was something strange down there?
>>Did you first stick a magnet to that "pyramid" looking out of the soil?
>>Did you immediately realize THIS IS IT, or was it a second thought? Was
>>Sonny near by, did you call him? Did you extract that whole big stone with
>>your hands (...before Sonny arrived?) or did you have a tool to do it? ...
>>You know, Count, sorts of "story telling" like this, which may enjoy you
>>while writing, and surely enjoys us when reading! So please, Guido, think
>>of the idea of writing this up for me, ...errrr I mean for us, of course!
>>
>>Oh, by the way, I read you are a real Count. Then again you sign with
>>Guido, which is a first name somewhat common in Germany and Switzerland.
>>Do you have ancestors here, on this side of the Big Pond, while being
>>American citizen? Well, just curious... :-)
>>
>>All my best, ganz herzliche Gruesse an Dich,
>>Alex from Berlin
>>
>>
>>
>>-------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>> Datum: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:27:51 -0500 (EST)
>>> Von: countdeiro at earthlink.net
>>> An: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
>>> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>> Thank you, Alex
>>>
>>> Alles gut est....
>>>
>>> Guido
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
>>> >Sent: Mar 4, 2010 4:52 AM
>>> >To: countdeiro at earthlink.net, wahlperry at aol.com,
>>> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, nakhladog at comcast.net
>>> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
>>> >
>>> >That´s fabulous, Count! You are da bomb! :-)
>>> >
>>> >Best,
>>> >Alex
>>> >Berlin/Germany
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >-------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>> >> Datum: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:14:45 -0500 (EST)
>>> >> Von: countdeiro at earthlink.net
>>> >> An: Rob Wesel <nakhladog at comcast.net>,
>>> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, wahlperry at aol.com
>>> >> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
>>> >
>>> >> Can you imagine the feelings that course through you when your on
>>> >> your
>>> >> first full day of hunting after 10 months of study and you have to
>>> >> dig
>>> with
>>> >> your hands to unearth this 28 pounder? Your first meteorite? I almost
>>> messed
>>> >> myself. I am emboldened now to say that I have graduated and I, for
>>> one,
>>> >> will no longer refer to myself as a newbie.
>>> >>
>>> >> My best wishes to everyone who shares the obsession with these
>>> >> visitors
>>> >> from space. Thank you Sonny.
>>> >>
>>> >> Guido
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> >From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog at comcast.net>
>>> >> >Sent: Mar 3, 2010 9:45 PM
>>> >> >To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, wahlperry at aol.com
>>> >> >Subject: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Holy cow!
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Nice one guys and to The Count....Is it in the city limits?????
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Really nice find, congratu-frickin-lations. Must have been something
>>> to
>>> >> find
>>> >> >that peak and have to keep digging and digging and digging
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Rob Wesel
>>> >> >www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
>>> >> >www.facebook.com/nakhladog
>>> >> >------------------
>>> >> >We are the music makers...
>>> >> >and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
>>> >> >Willy Wonka, 1971
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >----- Original Message -----
>>> >> >From: <wahlperry at aol.com>
>>> >> >To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>> >> >Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:30 PM
>>> >> >Subject: [meteorite-list] I hate Count (Guido) Diero ! : )
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> Hi List,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I bet you could call this beginners luck. I took Guido out
>>> >> >> meteorite
>>> >> >> hunting. I turned left and he turned right. To check out what he
>>> found
>>> >> >> scroll to the bottom of the meteorite hunts page. More to come
>>> later.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> http://www.nevadameteorites.com/nevadameteorites/METEORITE_HUNTS.html
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Sonny
>>> >> >>
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