[meteorite-list] Back for a few days - Report from the field

From: Adam Hupe <adamhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:46 2004
Message-ID: <059f01c3c0ff$64a90da0$d2dbe60c_at_attbi.com>

Dear List Members,

I just finished checking in to see what has been going on in-between
expeditions. We will be off again on another trip in a couple of days.
Some comments on a few items:

I see we were featured on the Proud Tom site this time. I must say the
pictures were pretty flattering but the text was lifted and changed from our
About Me site on eBay. We were hoping for a little more creativity like the
first Proud Tom site which looks like it was written from scratch and was
somewhat more entertaining. Anyway, no harm done, it created a chuckle from
us and we are glad to see we made the second cut.

The next thing I would like to bring up is the success we enjoyed on our
latest expedition. We finally had a chance to search dried out lake beds
after reading so much about them in southern California and Nevada. We made
a cold find (unreported new find) on the first full day of the expedition in
California. A total of three black crusted individual meteorites, not
fragments, were found close to one another over a two day period
constituting a new strewn field, talk about luck!

Congratulations to Steve Drummond who found his first meteorite ever and
more importantly it was the second one found proving we were working a new
strewn field. I found the first completely crusted individual which weighed
54.3 grams and my brother, Greg, found the third, all within 100' of each
other forming a perfect triangle. This is a first for Greg and I as we have
never found a meteorite that was not from an established strewn field or
fall with the exception of a specimen that we lost the chain of custody of.
This will not be the case this time because we had four witnesses, GPS
coordinates and in situ pictures. We will prepare an article later on this
new find which will have a very cool new name because of its find locality.

We ran into a fellow List Member and meteorite hunter at Roach Dry Lake in
Nevada while our six member team was searching, talk about a small world.
We are not sure whether any more meteorites were found in Nevada because the
small magnetic pieces we found need to be checked under a microscope. I
also found a very strange black crusted stone with a pinkish-white center.
I thought it was some kind of animal turd because of its odd perfectly
symmetrical oriented shape but this thing shows small crystals, flow lines
and is hard as rock. I suppose it could be some strange man-made object
because I have never seen a meteorite that looks like this thing. Will show
pictures of these finds when we return from our second expedition.

Wishing everybody well,

Adam Hupe
The Hupe Collection
IMCA 2185
Received on Fri 12 Dec 2003 05:29:22 PM PST