[meteorite-list] The Truth: Meteorite Find Would Be Out Of This World

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:50 2004
Message-ID: <000701c1a486$0368d760$8e01a8c0_at_lt>

I wish him the best, but I still think his price of 500k is whacky!
Matt
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Truth: Meteorite Find Would Be Out Of This
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> Hi Al, Matt, and List,
> I have silently stood by and watched how this adverture would play out.
I'm a
> bit surprised that Rich has not revealed to the list or to the newspapers
how
> much of the information he used to "discover" the Plymouth meteorite or
the
> farm was from research I and another individual did back in the mid-90's.
>
> To explain further: I had made a posting to this list about one year ago.
In
> that posting I had mentioned that I had been on a number of meteorite
hunts,
> including Homestead Iowa, Trenton Wisconsin, and Plymouth Indiana. The
last
> was the result of many months contacting the Plymouth Historical Society,
> research in books, (Farrington's, etc) pouring over newspaper clips,
> obtaining a Plymouth phone directory, and so forth. I had accumulated
quite a
> bit of information, and subsequently, myself and another meteorite
collector,
> Don Stimpson PhD, (who now owns the Kimberly farm where the Brenham
meteorite
> was found and bought it from Ellis Peck in the 1990's--with his wife
Shelia)
> took all of the information to Indiana and located the farm. As a side
note,
> one might find it interesting that Don re-created H.O. Stockwell's metal
> detector, (the wheelbarrel shaped metal detector Mr. Stockwell used to
find
> specimen's of the Trenton meteorite and pieces of Brenham. My good friend
and
> fellow meteorite hunter, Rob Reisener who graduated from Univ. Of Mass.,
was
> a friend of Bill Reed (now deceased). Bill once owned H.O. Stockwell's
metal
> detector. The original H.O. Stockwell metal detector is now owned by Rob.
Rob
> was also given by Bill a number of letters of coorespondence with H.O.
> Stockwell. (makes for fascinating reading!)
>
> At any rate. using my Garrett metal detector, and Don using his H.O.
> Stockwell replica, we went over a portion of that Plymouth farm for a full
> day in the mid 90's---but without success. Don and his wife Sheila, both
were
> research scientists at Abbott Labs and as mentioned earlier, moved to the
> Kimberly farm. I have not stayed in touch with Don, so we never returned
to
> Indiana.
>
> Which now brings me to the current---Rich contacted me off list and and
asked
> if I could help him locate the Plymouth Meteorite. I photocopied every bit
of
> information I had including the coordinates for the Plymouth Farm. I
really
> sincerely hope Rich finds this meteorite. Don and I had alot of fun
looking
> for it--and even the research I did was very rewarding, interesting, and
> enjoyable to do. But I just thought the entire story should be told for
list
> members. Rich---if you're reading this, is there anything you want to add?
My
> best to you and to the list members. Now get that meteorite!
>
> Steven L. Sachs
>
Received on Wed 23 Jan 2002 10:20:01 PM PST