[meteorite-list] Hunting in Norway...
From: Jim Strope <nwa482_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 4 13:24:38 2006 Message-ID: <001601c6b7bb$8deaa3d0$0202a8c0_at_DJQVK441> What are the large sizes that you have available? How much are you asking for pieces per gram? With fusion crust is preferred. Thanks,,,,,,,,,,, Jim Strope >>>>>> Since others are sharing their Moss meteorite hunting experiences, I thought that it was time to share my own. I'm fortunate enough to live in Norway so, after hearing news of the first recoveries, quickly made plans to make the 7h drive to Moss. I set out late in the evening on the 18th of July. After three Cokes, several orange juices, two hot dogs, a big bag of chips, and 2h of sleep, I arrived in Moss to be greeted by a beautiful sunny morning. People were out and about, and most had heard about the meteorites that had been recovered. After a quick tour to the area of the Johansen 750g recovery, I met up with a friend and we set off to see the site of the famous 'outhouse' incident. After failing to find the cabin and being told by another searcher that we were wasting our time searching the area because it had been searched out, we set off test this assertion. We found nothing, but, since the area is covered mostly with trees and fields, I would hesitate to say that it had been searched fully. Several more days of searching bush, islands, neighbourhoods, and industrial areas led to nothing. Even the leads were sparse. A possible rock on a golf course, a piece of obsidian, and sounds of falling rocks in Moss all turned out to be dead ends. The sound of falling rocks in Moss was, at first, thought to be interesting but, after talking to the man in question, it became clear that he had heard the sounds 2-4h after the fireball. Things became more exciting though on the last day trip (July 23rd), just as I was turning onto the highway to drive home. As luck would have it, I received a tip which actually turned out to be good! We investigated and found that a reasonable sized part rock had been recovered to the NW of the Johansen stone. Further searching of the area turned up many more fragments from a gram or two in size up to about 500g. As best I can tell from the recovered material, this stone hit a fence (as indicated by bits of plastic fence material on a piece of the stone) before breaking into many bits which were thrown in many directions and scattered over a large area. All in all, the trip was successful with material recovered and sent off for classification and counting work. Congratulations to all who have spent time searching in Norway. I believe that the positive efforts put forth by those in the field may help ward off the current push to make Norwegian meteorites state property. If you're interested in acquiring some of this material, please contact me off-list specifying the amount that you're looking for (preferably larger pieces at this time). Mike mjmazur at gmail.com -- Michael Mazur Vigdelsvegen 523 4054 Tjelta Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/attachments/20060804/cfad4f02/attachment.htmlReceived on Fri 04 Aug 2006 07:45:59 AM PDT |
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