[meteorite-list] Muonionalusta, Sweden Report

From: meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 9 18:55:04 2006
Message-ID: <080920062105.1494.44DA4E1A00097784000005D622073007939D0A9B029A080A9B079D010A9B0A03_at_comcast.net>

Hi everyone, we finally got some internet access here in Sweden, for the last 10 days I have been driving every other day to Finland to check emails, now I should have daily access until I leave for home.
Well, today was my 8th day hunting, and I suppose you all saw the email that I found a 47 kilogram iron on my birthday, August 4th. Since then, Robert Ward and I have been searching hard for days with no success. Well, today we changed that up a bit. I found a 25 kilogram regmaglypted piece after an hour of searching this afternoon. Robert then found an 8 kilogram piece a little later. Then he got a weak signal with the 2x2 meter coil and no signal with the Minelab, so we knew he had a deep one. We dug for nearly two hours in glacial till, removing large rocks of at least 40 and 50 kilos, then found the meteorite at 1.6 meter deep. We thought for sure it would be a large one, but alas, he found a beautiful 4 kilogram Muonionalusta shaped just like a shoe!
         Well, I have all of tomorrow to search, then Friday driving half the day to ship my pieces as air cargo, then back for an afternoon of hunting, then out of here on Saturday. Monday night I will be home at last, free from the knats and mosquitos that have surely sucked a pint or two of blood from me!
This has certainly been an interesting 3 weeks in the meteorite world.
Michael Farmer
Muonionalusta, Sweden
Received on Wed 09 Aug 2006 05:05:30 PM PDT