[meteorite-list] india meteorite fall
From: harlan trammell <skyrox_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:26 2004 Message-ID: <BAY1-F48BQZfNEaYVi100008c18_at_hotmail.com> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV><PRE>thanx 4 the stories! sounds like you need a good airboat and a tommy gun w/ a drum clip! hope you find more skyrox- you have definitely paid the price. this kow talk makes me wanna go get a steak. headed to ruth's chris as a result of your stories to get a fix. nice to read your post for those of us who will never go. there seems to be lots of electronic <STRONG><EM><FONT color=#ff0000>diarrhea</FONT></EM></STRONG> on this list now instead of skyrock talk anf your posts breath liife back into the list. good luck and thanx again. >From: Michael Farmer </PRE> <P><BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: Michael Farmer <METEORITEGUY_at_YAHOO.COM> <DIV></DIV>>To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>>Subject: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from the scene <DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:53:26 -0700 (PDT) <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Hi everyone, internet here is little better than smoke <DIV></DIV>>signals, it has taken me almost 2 hours to go through <DIV></DIV>>50 emails, so slow, and Matteo's crying like a 2 year <DIV></DIV>>old baby. Matteo, shut the hell up, PLEASE, if I see <DIV></DIV>>another email about "Other people is make prices ruin" <DIV></DIV>>I will have to beat the hell out of you when I see you <DIV></DIV>>(Just kidding, but only a little). <DIV></DIV>>OK <DIV></DIV>>I am in the strewnfield. <DIV></DIV>>I have a small piece of the meteorite. IT is an H <DIV></DIV>>chondrite and similar to Zag, veining and <DIV></DIV>>slickensides. <DIV></DIV>>There is EXTREME flooding here, all parts are under <DIV></DIV>>water, there is NO HOPE of recovering more material <DIV></DIV>>unless it is simply in a village and not known about <DIV></DIV>>yet. the strewnfield is some miles long, traveling <DIV></DIV>>between two villages that the local assured me were <DIV></DIV>>only 5 km apart by air took over 2 hours by road (if <DIV></DIV>>you can call it that). India is beautiful and horrible <DIV></DIV>>at the same time. The road is covered with untold <DIV></DIV>>thousands of people, dogs, cows, goats, etc, NONE of <DIV></DIV>>which move or are even slightly annoyed by the <DIV></DIV>>incessant use of the horn, we actually ran over a dogs <DIV></DIV>>foot yesterday, he would not move until the car ran <DIV></DIV>>right over him. I felt sorry for it but then again if <DIV></DIV>>anything is that stupid..... <DIV></DIV>>I also wish I had a gun with me, to put some of the <DIV></DIV>>stupidist creature on the planet (The cow) out of <DIV></DIV>>their misery (or ignorant bliss) whichever it is. <DIV></DIV>>There are thousands of them, laying in the roads, cars <DIV></DIV>>just go around them whereever possible. <DIV></DIV>> the entire area is flooded, and I mean bad, hundreds <DIV></DIV>>of thousands of miles under water, looks like the <DIV></DIV>>ocean with small patched of trees and huts standing <DIV></DIV>>out of it. Roads are almost not more than small trails <DIV></DIV>>with everyone and everything blocking them. <DIV></DIV>>Most of the meteorite has been taken by the police, I <DIV></DIV>>am working on tracking down a couple of pieces, but it <DIV></DIV>>looks hopeless as it takes me 6 hours to get to the <DIV></DIV>>area even though it is only 70 miles away, the max <DIV></DIV>>spees is about 10 miles an hour on the highway and <DIV></DIV>>about 2 miles an hour on the village route. <DIV></DIV>>these are small villages, I mean aobut 10 familes <DIV></DIV>>each, no electricity, nothing more than some mud huts <DIV></DIV>>in a land of mud. I had to go on motorcycle for a few <DIV></DIV>>miles last night with a spectacular lightning show in <DIV></DIV>>the distance, it was the most eery and beatiful drive <DIV></DIV>>I have ever taken, the flooded swampland, cool wind, <DIV></DIV>>nice people and all made me fell like I was in some <DIV></DIV>>sort of 16 th century expedition. When we got to the <DIV></DIV>>village, the people showed me where a 6-8 kilo stone <DIV></DIV>>fell, coming down right down the slanted roof of a <DIV></DIV>>hut, denting in the grass roof and making a large <DIV></DIV>>crater at the base of the hut. That stone was taken 2 <DIV></DIV>>days ago, but I have two competing guys traking down <DIV></DIV>>the person who took it, to get it for me. We will see <DIV></DIV>>if this hut smasher comes home with me. I do have a 13 <DIV></DIV>>gram fragment of it, (They smashed it). The meteorite <DIV></DIV>>is like Zag, large veins and slickensides. <DIV></DIV>>The 6 hour trip back to town last night was the most <DIV></DIV>>harrowing of my life, I would say at least 50 near <DIV></DIV>>head on collisions with giant trucks, busses, all <DIV></DIV>>without lights, cars on the wrong side of the road, <DIV></DIV>>washed out roads, cows of course (and they would much <DIV></DIV>>rather drive off a cliff and die than kill a cow <DIV></DIV>>here!). <DIV></DIV>>there should be hundreds of stones, but it is all <DIV></DIV>>rivers and swamps and rice paddies, all under several <DIV></DIV>>feet of water, so virtually none will be recovered. <DIV></DIV>>I saw photos of the 5 kilo stone, very nice. <DIV></DIV>>Anyway, sorry for the format of this email, but using <DIV></DIV>>the computer here is not easy. <DIV></DIV>> Anyone thinking of coming to get some, forget it, as <DIV></DIV>>it is, with my 13 gram piece, i will have paid over <DIV></DIV>>$400.00 gram for my piece! But I will have memories of <DIV></DIV>>a lifetime of this hunt, which doing it alone, I <DIV></DIV>>already consider by far my most exotic and <DIV></DIV>>interesting. <DIV></DIV>>the people in the villages do not speak english or <DIV></DIV>>Hindi, but Orissi, a local tribal language. <DIV></DIV>>the meteorite fell only about 1/2 mile from the Bay of <DIV></DIV>>Bengal (but now it seems to be in the Bay of bengal <DIV></DIV>>with everything under water anyway). <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>I will post more info as soon as I can. <DIV></DIV>>Mike Farmer <DIV></DIV>>Meteorite Hunter <DIV></DIV>>Writing from Orissa India. <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>______________________________________________ <DIV></DIV>>Meteorite-list mailing list <DIV></DIV>>Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <DIV></DIV>>http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2740??PS=">Instant message during games with MSN Messenger 6.0. 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