[meteorite-list] S. Utah

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:02:38 -0600
Message-ID: <6f9da8300705181502v79250570j990ddf495fed518d_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Pete
Actually if you have ever heard of the Donner party that will tell you
about the chances of finding meteorites on the slat flats. Part of the
reason the Donner party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party)
was so late was because they took a "shortcut" across the slat flats.
Their steel wagon wheels got quite stuck mud and slowed their progress
quite significantly.
I have also driven along I-80 through the heart of the salt flats a
few years ago. You could see where someone(several people actually)
decided to drive off onto the flats and they immediately became stuck.
The tracks did not go forward but were pulled back.
In other words quite a large amount of the area is so soft anything
that lands on it over a large area will sink into oblivion. Obviously
there are hard areas where you would not get stuck but it is nearly
impossible to to differentiate the hard areas from the soft ones.
Besides salt is really hard on survivability of meteorites anyway.
I know I could find much easier areas to hunt for meteorites in Utah myself.

Mike

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On 5/18/07, Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> On the topic of Utah, I've wondered in the past about the salt flats, where
> anything foreign would be easily spotted from afar.
>
> Is that off limits?
> (How could they enforce such a huge area?)
>
> I assume that any speed tracks marked out would be patrolled for debris
> first. Has anything ever been found from that?
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
>
> From: Nicholas Gessler <gessler at ucla.edu>
> To: "Robin Galyan"
> <robin_707a at ifiles.com>,<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] S. Utah
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:18:05 -0700
>
> Robin,
>
> I spent about a week revisiting known localities there
> and found nothing.  In fact, I was rather suspicious of
> the localities that I did visit.  The just didn't "look right,"
> and from my recollection, they were all made in the
> same season.
>
> So, I'm afraid I cannot be of much help.  It would be
> interesting to look up the fellow who reported on these
> localities.  I would very much like to hear his story.
>
> Good luck and happy hunting,
> Nick
>
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