[meteorite-list] Wisconsin Find Registration UW-Madison

[Joe Kerchner]

I have registered mine and hope everyone else will do the same.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:23 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Cc: John Valley <valley at geology.wisc.edu>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Wisconsin Find Registration  UW-Madison

Hello All,

To all who found meteorites, or purchased stones from the original finders 
of the April 14, 2010 fall in southwestern Wisconsin, I encourage everyone 
to register these with the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In charge of 
this web site is Professor John Valley. I have already sent in the 
information for my two finds which included; Weight, Date of Find (I 
included time as well), GPS coordinates and Photos (if you can not send or 
take stones to John).

Here is a snip of John's reply to me earlier today:

"We have three lists of meteorites.  One contains references that we find on 
the web or hear about second hand. The more  important list contains
 all confirmed finds of falls from April 14.  We will put your samples on 
the confirmed list.   We also show pictures on our web site, but this is 
just the subset of samples that we have examined and photographed ourselves 
I understand your reluctance to ship them to us. It would be very helpful to 
know the weights of your samples and the approx. (or exact) locations where 
you found them. This will help us to eventually define the distribution of 
the strewn field and the total mass of stones that were found. Thanks, John 
Valley"

Here is the link to the Registration Page:
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/misc/meteorite-registry/

I would also encourage everyone who has not sent Richard Kowalski or Rob 
Matson this information to do so as well. The data that can be gleaned from 
this information will help these three parties with future meteorite 
recovery and other important science.

Best regards,
Greg

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