[meteorite-list] Blue Balls at Harper Lake

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Feb 23 17:02:34 2005
Message-ID: <20050223220233.59030.qmail_at_web51704.mail.yahoo.com>

<http://moisture.greenmuseum.org/projects/m2/offsite.html>

Well, it just won’t stop raining here in Southern
California. And some of the storms have been REALLY
big gully washers. Not much to do but stay home, surf
the net, or “spin yarns”.

Here is a web site that I found interesting.
Researchers out at Harper Lake in the Mojave Desert
have placed brightly colored spheres in stream beds in
an attempt to gauge the movement of sediment in that
valley. Given all these recent storms, those “blue
balls” should be all the way down to the Lake by now!
Should you go to Harper Lake and find these “Blue
Balls” on the shoreline, you should contact these
researchers and let them know where you found their
balls.

The connection to meteorites is that many of us have
had the same idea – to purposely place “marked rocks”
on dry lakebeds and to follow their movement over the
years. (The theory being that where ever the
traveling “marked rocks” collected, that is where you
should search for meteorites;-)

We’re still finding on dry lakes BLACK GOLF BALLS from
1998, back when Paul Gessler was practicing his swing
while calibrating his eyesight for distant black
objects.
:-)
 Bob V
Received on Wed 23 Feb 2005 05:02:33 PM PST