[meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from the scene

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:24 2004
Message-ID: <20031010061444.46142.qmail_at_web20910.mail.yahoo.com>

WOW, all I can say is WOW, I have seen your photos, if
you have not seen mine, I suggest you look. It was a
joke, but with just a little nudjing, i could take it
serious.
Is there anyone esle who is tired of Matteo? I already
know who is tired of me.
Mike Farmer.
--- M come Meteorite Meteorites
<mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it> wrote:
> 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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