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

From: Steve Witt <stelor96_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:50 2004
Message-ID: <20020123062059.33131.qmail_at_web9605.mail.yahoo.com>

     Greetings Steve and List,

   I just wanted to confirm that what Steve is saying is true. I also
contacted him off list for the same reason and was sent a complete
"folder" (over 45 pages) of information that obviously took quite a
bit of effort to put together. The research and cross referencing, as
well as countless letters sent to numerous institutions to try and
glean as much information as possible were simply handed over to me
just for the asking. A big hand for Steve, he has done a phenominal
amount of work in an effort to locate the purported main mass of this
fall. Rich seems to be a Johnny-come-lately, trying to get credit
for alot of work that was done by others. All of the above info was
sent to me on 1/16/01. My two grams.

                      Steve Witt





--- SSachs9056_at_aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
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