[meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico

[karmaka]

Two names for this fall?

Mwana Wikio

and

Kihum Wiri

Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
Gesendet: 01.09.2011 18:24:55
An: "Michael Gilmer" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico

>It will be submitted and classified like every other meteorite, not sure why it would not be accepted, have all data needed.
>Will be building a page about it as soon as I can, a little tired with more than 45000 miles flown in the last month.
>
>Kihum Wiri (proposed name of the Kenya fall) is an L6, submitted yesterday for nomcom approval. Also a househitter.
>Michael Farmer
>
>--- On Thu, 9/1/11, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New househitting meteorite fall from Mexico
>> To: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
>> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 10:22 AM
>> 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.
>> >
>> > 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!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Quite a score, a Mexican hammerstone that appears to
>> be a L or LL3!
>> >
>> > Not for sale
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > http://meteoriteguy.com/guadalajara
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > http://meteoriteguy.com/mexicometeorite.JPG
>> >
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