[meteorite-list] The Fall of Aguas Zarcas - One Year ago (and the Buzz has not worn off)

Thu Apr 23 16:30:51 EDT 2020

Thanks Kevin... and

Greetings Meteorite Friends,

I would like to add a _big thank you from the scientific community_, 
too! New discoveries were made in the field of extraterrestrial organics 
because of the quick recovery of pre-rain samples and even ordinary dirt 
from the site. We are grateful to all who provided samples for research.

Best regards to all especially in these challenging times,
Dolores Hill
_University of Arizona_'s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory    ;-)

On 4/23/2020 10:32 AM, Kevin Kichinka via Meteorite-list wrote:
> Team Meteorite:
>
> Measured by volume or number, Costa Rica will win every Scarlet Macaw 
> competition.
>
> But she will linger in last place when it comes to 
> recovered meteorites. More seem to fall in Morocco in one day, than 
> the sole kilo of stone that fell here in 1857.
>
> That is, until a few minutes past nine o'clock at night one year ago 
> today, when around 25-30kg was added to the goodie bag.
>
> Enjoying 'home court advantage', I was the first foreign hunter on 
> site and later wrote about my astounding experience for the July, 2019 
> edition of the Meteorite Times, Paul Harris and Jim Tobins' essential, 
> bi-monthly on-line magazine.
>
> While we all cool our jets under self-inflicted house arrest, if you 
> haven't read this feature or realize its worth a second viewing-  I'll 
> suggest it will completely remove your mind from the horrors the world 
> presently faces, replaced with a few chuckles, instants of fresh 
> comprehension, and moments of awe.
>
> Read it here:
>
> *https://www.meteorite-times.com/fall-of-aguas-zarcas-cm2/*
>
> In December past, I returned with Blaine and Blake Reed to clean up 
> what ever was still laying around.
>
> In my follow-up feature in the Met Times, the first science on the met 
> is previewed, courtesy of Buckyball World champion Greg Shanos.
>
> I share the details of a fun trade of pre-rain AZ CM2 to Blaine for 
> specimens of Bolivian fall Aiquile, PAL Sericho and the DIO NWA 5484, 
> a visual twin to Mars life suspect ALH84001.
>
> The 'Meteorite Man' Robert Haag submits a fantastic travelogue of his 
> ten days in-country, along with some deeper profundities that any 
> fan-of-the-man will delight in - LOL!!!.
>
> All of this is embedded inside a story of a life in Costa Rica, told 
> under the guise of meteorite hunting.
>
> Make sure to click on the links....you will not regret the detours.
>
> The feature begins and ends with two of the most breath-taking photos 
> of a falling meteorite in flight ever published.
>
> Read it here:
>
> *https://www.meteorite-times.com/high-noon-in-aguas-zarcas-where-the-reed-bros-ride-again/*
>
> *************************************************************************************************************
> Lastly.
>
> Forever thoughts, memories and strength to all of my friends and 
> acquaintances here, in our time of universal distress.
>
> I've 'been with you' for twenty-five years now. You've been with me as 
> I've written here and for JSchiff's 'Meteorite', about the Mars' 
> meteorites we hold in esteem, along with researchers who took us 
> 'inside the rock' to its elemental core, and together with museum 
> curators in London, Paris and Chicago that allowed us to see their 
> secret treasures.
>
> I wrote a daily blog back to the m-list during two expeditions to 
> Bolivia, when the internet was our new toy. Writing from a town next 
> to the Salar de Uyuni, the salt flats where I though a black rock 
> ought to stand out, a single skinny cable next to a 19th century train 
> track carried my words to you.
>
> Imagine Bolivia, a place where few chose to become tourists, where 
> Butch Cassidy and the Kid called Sundance went to 'get away from it 
> all'. A place where 'you were there' when a team of your friends 
> recovered the country's first authenticated meteorite.
>
> And I'll always smile when I think about the prize fight that was a 
> court battle with JPL web-master Ron Ballke, as we argued the evidence 
> (or lack thereof) in regards to a dog "left like ashes in a moment" by 
> the Nakhla meteorite in Egypt.
>
> You the court ruled, 'Long live the dead dog'.
>
> /Ojala,/ that we may together continue these adventures.
>
> Please do not 'travel off the trail' of common sense, instead 
> steadfastly cling to the route of uncommon sense. Take all precautions 
> to shield yourself from these clouds of molecular terror threatening 
> our lives and and everything important.
>
> It seems that we are in a race where the finish line is not known, and 
> we have become unwilling participants in a marathon where the course 
> is thick with land mines.
>
> The mountain is high. But one's every careful step is one step closer 
> to the yet unseen summit, because it does exist.
>
> Some will slip from a careless step and fall into a dark infinity, an 
> indescribable infinity without a tomorrow.
>
> Endure and survive.
>
> Now join me..... On to Aguas Zarcas!
>
> Kevin Kichinka
> Nine Degree N x 50km south of the AZ strewn field
> Costa Rica
> "The Art of Collecting Meteorites" available on Amazon
>
> MARSROX at gmail.com <mailto:MARSROX at gmail.com>
>
>
>
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-- 
Dolores H. Hill
Sr. Research Specialist
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
Kuiper Space Sciences Bldg. #92
The University of Arizona
1629 E. University Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85721
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/

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Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers - Meteorite Section

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