[meteorite-list] First Cold find for 2007

From: Norm Lehrman <nlehrman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:12:13 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <261371.22750.qm_at_web81001.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Sonny,

Waaaaaaay to go!!!

Regards,
Norm
(http://TektiteSource.com


--- wahlperry at aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After spending about two hours of hunting I found
> a 34 gram fragment
> from an old weathered chondrite. The magnet jumped
> to it like a piece
> of steel. I spent about an hour walking around
> looking for the rest of
> the meteorite. From the looks of the fragment and
> surface that I was
> hunting it could not be too far. I decided to try
> the metal detector on
> the fragment, it was a real loud signal. Within
> minutes I found 4 more
> pieces 34,17,135 grams. All of the fragments were
> buried a couple
> inches deep. I had a loud signal about 6' from the
> first target. I
> started digging, the first 10 " was hard dirt with
> fist sized rocks.
> The signal got louder and I thought it must have
> been a hot rock in the
> hole. Four more inches down under some more rocks
> was a 2.65lb chunk of
> meteorite. None of the smaller pieces fit onto the
> large meteorite. The
> chunk looks like a third of the meteorite.The
> fragments all look the
> same, my guess it is all from the same meteorite. I
> will have to bring
> a shovel and dig the hole deeper. The meteorite
> looks like it is a OC .
> The total weight so far is 3.16 lbs. The meteorite
> is from a new area
> with no previous finds in Nevada. I will post some
> pictures next week.
>
> Sonny
>
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Received on Thu 01 Feb 2007 01:12:13 AM PST