[meteorite-list] Full Circle With Correo

[aerubin at ucla.edu]

An interesting aside:  Correo and Suwanee Spring were the first  
meteorites I classified.  I went looking for more specimens one hot  
summer day back in 1979 or 1980 but found nothing.
Alan Rubin

Quoting Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>:

> Hi List,
>
>   I hope you will indulge me with regard to this email concerning a  
> full-circle, or pay-it-forward, moment I was so happy to be a small  
> part of.
>
>   Back in early December, I was contacted by a self-described  
> "amateur weekend meteorite hunter" named Del Waterbury. He explained  
> that he had read a post I made to the List in 2002 about the Correo  
> strewnfield, and my August, 2007 Meteorite magazine article, "Let's  
> Go, Correo!". He said that he had wanted to hunt there, but was not  
> having much luck in finding any helpful info concerning the details  
> of the strewnfield, such as size or orientation. He very politely  
> asked me if I would mind helping him.
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>   How could I refuse? Especially when I was in his place, 16 years  
> ago, when I contacted two veteran Correo hunters, Robert Haag and  
> Steve Schoner, asking them for help with the same questions. As they  
> did for me, I happily shared anything I knew about the site. Del  
> graciously thanked me for my help and said he would send me an email  
> after the hunt with all the details of the result.
>
>   Well, tonight I received a very nice email from Del. I was  
> thrilled to see that he actually was successful. In only one day of  
> hunting, he found 2 fragments of Correo!  The first was a 5 grammer,  
> and very close by, a 2 gram specimen. True to his word, Del sent me  
> photos of his finds, along with his appreciation for my help. That  
> certainly made my day. And... he provided me the opportunity to  
> "pay-it-forward"... "it" being the kindness that I had been shown  
> all those years ago.
>
>   Correo is not the same place it was 16 years ago. There were only  
> a handful of scattered house back then. A major section of the  
> strewnfield is now occupied by a small community! I had wished Del  
> the best earlier, but deep down I felt the odds were against him.  
> But Del came thru. He went.... and he found!
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>   I am very humbled and thankful to Del for sharing the excitement  
> of his finds, and for giving me the chance to come full circle with  
> Correo. And, thanks to you, Steve and Robert, for starting this  
> whole process to begin with. 
>
>   Sincerely,
>   Robert Woolard
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