[meteorite-list] Expedition ST01-Bravo field report

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 21:08:44 2005
Message-ID: <042320050109.2551.4269A02E00046D33000009F721604666489C9C070D040A90070BD206_at_att.net>

Stan,

Thanx for sharing your trip and pictures with us. That little piece of chassignite is cute.

Cute as in HOLY COW Stan!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a buy!!!!!!!

JD
 

-------------- Original message from "stan ." <laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com>: --------------


> Well after a long hard week of travel (comming home to nothing other than
> tax time) I have a few pictures of my trip to England and France to share.
>
>
> - the front entrance of the natural history meseum in london - the building
> is ALMST as impressive as what it houses - ALMOST.
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/3073/london16pz.jpg
>
> - While taking the 'behind the scenes' tour of the meteorite collection I
> walked down a hallway with a large rock sitting humbly in a cabinet next to
> other mineral specimins - I do a doubletake as I passed the cabinet - "was
> that? NO it couldnt be!' I say to my self - WRONG - the stone in question
> was the mian mass of Parnalee - one of the best looking LL3's out there -
> the 100 LBS+ main mass of Parnalee! The cut face with probably 2 square feet
> of area main mass of Parnalee! it's a shame the photos didnt come out
> better, but this should give you an idea of how awsome a stone it is.
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/1706/london27lp.jpg
>
> -This is a weird one - probably one of the best meteorwrongs out there.
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/6992/london34dj.jpg
>
> Many Thanks for Dr. Sarah Russell and Ms Emma Bullock for taking the time to
> put up with me saying 'oh can i see this, and this, and this' (ad infinitum)
>
> Now moving on to Lyon France to visit Bruno and Carine-
>
> -Bruno and Carine are only just getting their showroom set up now but their
> home is nothing less of a museum than the previous stop on my trip was. One
> of the first things you see when walking in is a T. Rex skull staring down
> at you. Display cabinets containing fossils, roman antiquities and last but
> not least rocks from space - a surprising number of them from the red
> planet!
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/4912/france19mw.jpg
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/6325/france28nm.jpg
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/619/france47cn.jpg
>
> -My first day in France I got to run wild through the inventory - all of the
> plastic bins you see are full of neat achonderites, carbonaceous, impact
> melts, orientated OCs, and great freshly crusted stones. Meteorites every
> everywhere you look. I dont mean to imply that Bruno and Carine are messy or
> disorganized but if there was ever a place you would have to worry about the
> 'problem' of having so many meteorites you are tripping all over them - this
> would be it. After looking at the 'common' rare stones Bruno served up a
> tray of the 'good stuff'. You know you are going to have fun looking at
> meteorites when the most common thing infront of you is a 400g piece of
> agult. And the bulk of the weight of a none too light tray is from mars.
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/6127/france39kp.jpg
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/9200/france52gp.jpg
>
> -The next day Bruno took me to the site of a roman house that was evident
> due to numerous pieces of terra cotta seen in the soil. I have sifted
> through TENS of TONS of rocks at the edges of fields, and gone metal
> detectng once or twice in my days, but never ONCE did I find a single thing.
> After about 10 minutes I dug up the medallion off an old Peugeot. 5 minutes
> later a roman nail - then a few minutes after that - JACKPOT! a roman coin
> from the time of the emporor Trajan - 116 AD. I know some other list members
> may have found gold and silver that were few hundred years old but this coin
> sat in the earth for nearly 1900 years untill I found it! it was a thrill of
> a lifetime for me!
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/3029/france61nf.jpg
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/3996/france77ko.jpg
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/7736/france87qh.jpg
>
> -Now on to the hard part. Bruno trying to seperate me from my money and me
> trying to seperate him from his best rocks! after a grueling afternoon of
> negotiations followed by a break for dinner and a bit of burning of the
> midnight oil we finally came to a deal - a nice big pile of achonderites and
> even a little piece of the new chassignite nwa2737 seen bellow with an end
> cut of DAG 1037. I never thought I would get a modest size piece of
> chassignite for my collection but here it is - now all i need is a descent
> sized piece of nakhla to round out my snc type colelction!
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/7352/rocks3ui.jpg
>
> -Aparently Carine was a little unhappy with the steal of a deal Bruno
> offered me, I walked in on this scene the next morning. Fortunatly no one
> was injured - most particularly the 15 or 20 kg henbury sitting on the
> window sill behind Bruno!
> http://img257.echo.cx/img257/6914/france96hg.jpg
>
> All in all it was a great week and many thanks to Bruno and Carine for
> hosting me while in France.
>
>
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