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Portales meteorite

Hello list. I have just returned home after a grueling 13 hour drive 
(sand storms caused detours to the Mexican border 200 miles south of my 
route;(. Anyway, I now have over half of the known pieces of Portales in 
my possesion at this time. I finally found one at about 6PM last evening 
while walking through a field. It is the most beautifull piece I have 
seen. It is ~340 grams, is a flat piece with an iron plate which is 
TOTALLY Blue fusion crusted, FLOW LINES over 1 inch long, and even metal 
bubbles!! WWWWWOOOOOWWWWWW. The top look like the rocky mountains with 
blue/black fusion crust. I almost had a hearyt attack when I saw it 
resting on top of a clump of grass. This is one neat meteorite. I will 
be building a website asap with photos of as many pieces as possible. To 
date, 21 pieces are known of which I own 11. I will likely be cutting a 
1.5 kilo full stone found last night. some pieces are 100% stone while 
others are metal and stone or mostly metal. An army of people have been 
searching with very little results. Not much more will likely be found. 
This fall is odd though. The largest pieces have ALL been found at the 
starting edge of the strewn field and the smallest at the far end. The 
opposite should be the case but is definatley not a this site. I have 
mapped every known piece and find them all to be  on a direct line with 
the fall direction, but as I said, the smallest pieces are found at the 
far end???? Interesting. Has this ever happened before? 
I will be posting more asap but need to get some sleep which I have not 
had for a week.

Thanks
Mike Farmer
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