[meteorite-list] first photos from the LA MANCHA meteorite hunting/ new fresh eucrite

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:29:00 +0200
Message-ID: <000801c7d73a$acd629a0$0200a8c0_at_ibmtp23>

Hi Thomas, Mirko, -



La Mancha, as you already mentioned it, is the region of Don Quijote - the
(too) late born knight on his horse Rosinante, who, accompanied by Sancho
Panso, chose the way of adventure to fight against the evil and to win -
well, what exactly? La Dulcinea (The Sweet)? His eternal soul?



The first sentence of the novel's first chapter reads: "An einem Orte der
Mancha, an dessen Namen ich mich nicht erinnern will ..." (At a place of the
Mancha which name I don't want to remember ...). Well, meteorite-aficionados
use to be anxious to know the name of the place where ... - and I'm sure you
in fact know the name, and your GPS the coordinates ;-)



Don Quijote was on a way called "The Quest" in the Middle Ages. The Quest
("die Suche" in German, "Queste" in old French, "Quaestatio" in Latin),
meaning "to search", "to ask a, or better: the question". The most famous
Quest was the hunt (!) for the Holy Grail. This hunt was an "outer" but even
more an "inner" experience of development.



Hunting for the Holy Grail, hunting for meteorites: you did it, and with a
success which, looking at the photos, is quite unbelievable.
Congratulations, and thank you for sharing your adventure with us!



My best, Matthias







----- Original Message -----
From: "Mirko Graul" <m_graul at yahoo.de>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 1:56 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] first photos from the LA MANCHA meteorite hunting/
new fresh eucrite


Hello List,

i hope seen have that all the last 3 "Picture of the day".
Here the first photos of the La Mancha meteorite hunting.
It was found 18 pieces with a Tkw of only 220g after 7 weeks in La Mancha.
The biggest individual have a weight of 29,4g and the mainmass have a weight
of 90g.
The mainmass is broken in the impact on the ground.
We will offer tomorrow a fragment from the mainmass on ebay.
The mainmass and the bigger individuals is hold or reserved for museums
universities and for the science.
Therefore many pieces are not available for collectors.
The first starts however tomorrow on Ebay.
But now first of all much joke in that regard the pictures.
Here that are the Links to the first and the second hunts.

http://www.ausgangspunkt-erde.de/Aktivitaeten/2004/spanienmai07.html

http://www.ausgangspunkt-erde.de/Aktivitaeten/2004/spanienjuli07.html

Many greetings to all

Thomas Grau , Steffen Jacobsen and Mirko Graul
Bernau/GERMANY


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