[meteorite-list] Louisiana fall

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:18 2004
Message-ID: <024801c387ce$88fd24d0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Yes, it is sad, but that is what happens, he is not a poor man and does'nt
need money, so the meteorite will not be cheap if sold at all.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Schoner" <steve_schoner_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Louisiana fall


> Terrible news,
>
> Awful loss.
>
> Steve Schoner
>
>
> --- Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > I will give a little information, not much, if you
> > want more, go there and find out, spend the $$$ to
> > do so.
> > I was in Arkansas so luckily I just hopped a
> > commuter plane with Gary Loyd and had a blast on
> > Bourbon Street. Anyone who thinks that only Mardi
> > Gras is party time needs to rethink that assumption,
> > the party never stopped there.
> >
> > There is a meteorite, it fell and crashed a
> > guy's home, unfortunately he threw the desk that it
> > smashed, and the house debris including alot of
> > meteorite pieces in the trash that day while
> > cleaning up the mess. The damage has all been
> > repaired so there are no house smasher artifacts to
> > get, no cool holes to cut out and preserve, and last
> > but far worse than anything else, he left almost all
> > of the meteorite under the house in the damp New
> > Orleans dirt under the house, for the last week, and
> > yesterday while trying to get under, found that the
> > meteorite actually damaged a water pipe and flooded
> > under the entire house.
> > I told him Saturday to get under there and of
> > course volunteered, to no avail, now the meteorite
> > sat there a week in water, and is severely damaged.
> > He did recover 1.5 kilos of fragments from the
> > floor and they are ok. This meteorite is EXTREMELY
> > fragile, like Bjorbole or Saratov, Chondrite (low
> > metal) turns to dust while handling it.
> > As far as the stuff that was been covered in
> > either water or sewage (I don't know if it was a
> > water line or the sewage line that was damaged) it
> > will be very highly damaged and perhaps melted by
> > now. I will know alot more tomorrow night.
> > There will be very little to go around if any at
> > all. Please don't ask me for pieces until I offer
> > them for sale.
> > This could have been another spectacular fall,
> > but he didn't know about meteorites so most data was
> > lost and the destruction repaired without
> > measurements or even photos!
> >
> > Mike Farmer
>
>
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Received on Tue 30 Sep 2003 11:46:02 PM PDT