[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:10:21 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20061221211022.87747.qmail_at_web51004.mail.yahoo.com>

Problem is David they failed to map the entire field
-- just the lake and they didn't recover all the
mapped fragments, or so I am lead to believe. I think
there were less than 6 plots on land( all adjacent to
the shore) out of what 300? plots on the lake surface.
 Yes perhaps we can project the map and then look for
large spots of mud which were meteoritical materials.
Especially what would have been a car sized main mass.

At most we have a slice of the field with no
orientations other than satellite tracking. Was this
down center line or on the southern fringe? It has
been a few years but I think this lake runs North
South along it's axis which is perpendicular to the
apparent fall line.

The lesson which should have been learned is that when
these happen there should be be a list of willing and
able warm bodies willing to deploy to the location to
do the science and keep to any agreements that the
Chief Scientist implements. In this case all the
volunteers were ignored and their offers declined.

If we ever have a fall on US Government lands we will
take years to get a plan approved for there is no
provision even at the Smithsonian for establishing a
reaction team.

We will then lament that loss as well for the rest of
our lives.

Elton
--- David Weir <dgweir at earthlink.net> wrote:

> But Michael, think of the potential value that the
> strewn field map may
> provide us someday (I know I'm not smart enough to
> imagine it). Maybe
> Richard and Roland could spell out for us the great
> importance of such a
> map.
>
> David
>
>
> Michael Farmer wrote:
> > ... You can all forget about recovery of more
> > Tagish Lake meteorites. The Canadians lost it all
> when
> > they closed off the site to all but a few people,
> who
> > took two months to make a neat little map of
> locations
> > of pieces frozen into the ice, then lost them all
> when
> > a fast thaw came along. Great job scientists, you
> lost
> > 99% of the rarest meteorite fall on the planet
> because
> > you wanted to keep it all secret and to
> yourselves....
>
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