[meteorite-list] NORWAY meteorite hunt

From: Pat Brown <radio_ranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 01:32:07 2006
Message-ID: <20060726053204.95272.qmail_at_web51314.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi All,

Chances like this don't come along very often, so
please forgive my boasting.....

I am a small fish in a sea of much larger fish...
but I can lay claim to be the first to post to the
meteorite mail list that this Norway meteorite
was....... carbonacious!!!!!

Back to your regularly scheduled mail list..

Best Regards to All,
                   Pat Brown

--- meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> Well, it is 12:24 am here in Moss Norway, and I
> just came up from some heavy drinking with a heck of
> a batch of meteorite hunters. We have Robert Ward,
> Robert Haag, and myself representing the USA.
> Moritz Karl, Alexander Gehler, Rainer Bartowtzewich
> (sp?) and Thomas Kurtz from Germany here tonight. WE
> saw many others today and yesterday though, even
> Poland was well represented. None from France, or
> Austria, or the UK though.
> Now, on to the meteorite! It IS A CO,
> Carbonaceous. NO DOUBT unless it gets some wierd
> exception in classification. So I was right, as were
> many others who guessed CO2 or CO3. It is a
> meteorite that will take your breath away! It also
> had the misfortune of falling in one of the worst
> imaginable places for searching! This area is of
> course, absolutely beautiful, fjords, trees, endless
> berrys to eat like strawberrys, blueberrys, and
> raspberrys, lots of tall, blonde women, and it is
> not 400,000 degrees like Tucson right now.
> What is wrong is that it is high growing season, so
> every flat surface is being farmed with full grown
> wheat, barley, peas, cabbage, etc. Every other
> surface is extremely heavy forest with deep layers
> of moss that you sink in, lakes, swamps, or fjords
> full of cruise ships. Their is absolutely no place
> to easily search other than a few parks and shopping
> centers and industrial sites.
> >From the siye of the fireball, it is certain that
> there are many pieces, but highly unlikely that much
> will be found other than by locals in their yards,
> and most locals are on vacation and not here.
> So to end so that I can get some sleep for the first
> time in 3 days, there is little news to report so
> far other than Norway got lucky with a fabulous new
> CC. Now it is time to feed the mosquitoes while I
> sleep for the few hours of darkness there is in this
> part of the world at this time of the year.
> Michael Farmer
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