[meteorite-list] New Nevada Finds

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Apr 9 02:06:57 2005
Message-ID: <BE7CBF32.1AD7C%mlblood_at_cox.net>

As always, Geoff,
        Your report and photos are top notch!
        Surprised you didn't put this in Meteorite Mag or METEORITE
TIMES!
        Thanks for the "freebee." Great work - and way too much fun.
        best wishes, Michael

on 4/8/05 7:33 PM, Notkin at geoking_at_notkin.net wrote:

> Greetings Dear Listees:
>
> I am very privileged to have been asked by List member Sonny Clary to
> announce his discovery of a new strewn field in Nevada. Sonny has been
> carefully mapping the field for approximately two years, and has
> meticulously recorded the weight and location of each find,
> photographed each piece in situ, and assigned every specimen a field
> number.
>
> Sonny has found a considerable number of fine stone meteorites,
> crusted, and with apparent low metal content, causing us to guess that
> they may be LLs. Representative samples of Sonny's finds are currently
> undergoing classification by a prominent academic meteoriticist.
>
> Sonny invited me to visit the area with him at the end of last month,
> with the hope of doing a new story on the strewn field for "Meteorite"
> magazine. We were accompanied on this expedition our friend Jim Kriegh.
>
> I have compiled a short photo journal of our Nevada hunt, and I hope
> you will all enjoy it:
>
> http://www.notkin.net/expeditions/nevada/1.htm
>
>
> Sonny hopes to be able to announce the exact location of the field at
> this time next year. Congratulations to Sonny on his finds, and for his
> exemplary field investigation methods.
>
>
>
> Best to all,
>
> Geoff N.
> www.notkin.net
> www.paleozoic.org
>
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