[meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico

[Michael Gilmer]

Awesome score!

Is this going to be officially recognized as a fall by the Meteoritical Society?

I'm curious because now I need to update my recent falls page -
http://www.galactic-stone.com/pages/falls

There are three other hammer falls from 2007 -

Cali - which Mike Farmer is very familiar with.  ;)

Carancas - the Peruvian crater-maker.

Mahadevpur - India.

PS - the first link you posted tries to open as an octet-stream file,
and I couldn't get it to open properly.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 9/1/11, Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com> wrote:
> Hello all, one week after getting stones in Kenya last sunday I bought
> pieces of my househitter from Muguga which had been sent all night by bus
> from Mombassa, I flew to Mexico and this sunday bought another stone, a
> househitter from San Juan Ocotan, Zapopan, Guadalajara.
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> This meteorite 1,369 grams. This location is on the edge of the city, next
> to a massive air force base.
>
> It fell in September 2007, exact date unknown.  It fell at ~3:00 am and
> smashed through a very poor house which had a tile roof covered with a tarp
> and smashed into mud bricks. The stone still has marks of the blue tarp, and
> the tile and mud bricks embedded in the stone. It was used for two years to
> hold open a shop door by the homeowner and seen by another man who
> recognized it as something special and acquired it. He finally emailed me
> asking if it was a meteorite.
>
> I flew to Guadalajara and bought it this weekend. It is in perfect
> condition, never damaged or cleaned thankfully, and while the owners family
> wanted to smash it to see inside, he never did!
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> Quite a score, a Mexican hammerstone that appears to be a L or LL3!
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> Not for sale
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> http://meteoriteguy.com/guadalajara
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> http://meteoriteguy.com/mexicometeorite.JPG
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