[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: <20031010065840.23498.qmail_at_web10307.mail.yahoo.com>

or who is tired of you and your arrogance
emails....probably never you see here in list write in
pubblic a opinion on you of a member, but is suffice
for me to know who it is against of you, and bushels
getting tired a lot of persons with your arrogance.
Come one members, write in pubblic it does thought of
it of this character, have for case fear of him? Stop
to broken me or the spam box is ready for you.

Matteo

--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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Received on Fri 10 Oct 2003 02:58:40 AM PDT