[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from the scene

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:24 2004
Message-ID: <20031010060727.99572.qmail_at_web10304.mail.yahoo.com>

Farmer, you are only a little idiot, come here and you
see who cry....little boy. Ah what method you use for
take off India the all material take, you have the
permission? Pertain the prices, you are the first one
that ruins them with your auctions on Ebay, and then
claim prices highs in your sites. I not understand
why this character does not be been thrown outside
from the List, seen that is the first one that
attaches the persons with its stupidity
Regards

Matteo


--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, internet here is little better than
> smoke
> signals, it has taken me almost 2 hours to go
> through
> 50 emails, so slow, and Matteo's crying like a 2
> year
> old baby. Matteo, shut the hell up, PLEASE, if I see
> another email about "Other people is make prices
> ruin"
> I will have to beat the hell out of you when I see
> you
> (Just kidding, but only a little).
> OK
> I am in the strewnfield.
> I have a small piece of the meteorite. IT is an H
> chondrite and similar to Zag, veining and
> slickensides.
> There is EXTREME flooding here, all parts are under
> water, there is NO HOPE of recovering more material
> unless it is simply in a village and not known about
> yet. the strewnfield is some miles long, traveling
> between two villages that the local assured me were
> only 5 km apart by air took over 2 hours by road (if
> you can call it that). India is beautiful and
> horrible
> at the same time. The road is covered with untold
> thousands of people, dogs, cows, goats, etc, NONE of
> which move or are even slightly annoyed by the
> incessant use of the horn, we actually ran over a
> dogs
> foot yesterday, he would not move until the car ran
> right over him. I felt sorry for it but then again
> if
> anything is that stupid.....
> I also wish I had a gun with me, to put some of the
> stupidist creature on the planet (The cow) out of
> their misery (or ignorant bliss) whichever it is.
> There are thousands of them, laying in the roads,
> cars
> just go around them whereever possible.
> the entire area is flooded, and I mean bad,
> hundreds
> of thousands of miles under water, looks like the
> ocean with small patched of trees and huts standing
> out of it. Roads are almost not more than small
> trails
> with everyone and everything blocking them.
> Most of the meteorite has been taken by the police,
> I
> am working on tracking down a couple of pieces, but
> it
> looks hopeless as it takes me 6 hours to get to the
> area even though it is only 70 miles away, the max
> spees is about 10 miles an hour on the highway and
> about 2 miles an hour on the village route.
> these are small villages, I mean aobut 10 familes
> each, no electricity, nothing more than some mud
> huts
> in a land of mud. I had to go on motorcycle for a
> few
> miles last night with a spectacular lightning show
> in
> the distance, it was the most eery and beatiful
> drive
> I have ever taken, the flooded swampland, cool wind,
> nice people and all made me fell like I was in some
> sort of 16 th century expedition. When we got to
> the
> village, the people showed me where a 6-8 kilo stone
> fell, coming down right down the slanted roof of a
> hut, denting in the grass roof and making a large
> crater at the base of the hut. That stone was taken
> 2
> days ago, but I have two competing guys traking down
> the person who took it, to get it for me. We will
> see
> if this hut smasher comes home with me. I do have a
> 13
> gram fragment of it, (They smashed it). The
> meteorite
> is like Zag, large veins and slickensides.
> The 6 hour trip back to town last night was the most
> harrowing of my life, I would say at least 50 near
> head on collisions with giant trucks, busses, all
> without lights, cars on the wrong side of the road,
> washed out roads, cows of course (and they would
> much
> rather drive off a cliff and die than kill a cow
> here!).
> there should be hundreds of stones, but it is all
> rivers and swamps and rice paddies, all under
> several
> feet of water, so virtually none will be recovered.
> I saw photos of the 5 kilo stone, very nice.
> Anyway, sorry for the format of this email, but
> using
> the computer here is not easy.
> Anyone thinking of coming to get some, forget it,
> as
> it is, with my 13 gram piece, i will have paid over
> $400.00 gram for my piece! But I will have memories
> of
> a lifetime of this hunt, which doing it alone, I
> already consider by far my most exotic and
> interesting.
> the people in the villages do not speak english or
> Hindi, but Orissi, a local tribal language.
> the meteorite fell only about 1/2 mile from the Bay
> of
> Bengal (but now it seems to be in the Bay of bengal
> with everything under water anyway).
>
> I will post more info as soon as I can.
> Mike Farmer
> Meteorite Hunter
> Writing from Orissa India.
>
>
>
>
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