[meteorite-list] Looking for hunting success story

From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:33:18 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <276820.29738.qm_at_web90305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

While on the subject - Here is a future success story.
 

I will be out in the Gold Basin strewnfield on June 6
and June 7. If anyone wants to meet up with me, I
will be at the turnoff to the left just after the
second cattle guard on Greggs Hideout road (CR-139 on
Google map). The GPS coordinates are: 114deg 11min 47
sec; 35deg 53min 07sec.

I will be there around noon on the 6th and early in
the morning on the 7th to hunt all day. On my last
trip I found 6 pieces between 7g and 30g. So I expect
this to be a successful trip.

Look forward to seeing anyone there.

Dave
--- Norm Lehrman <nlehrman at nvbell.net> wrote:

> Michael & all,
>
> Here's a quick successful hunt story for you. I was
> headed home from a project in rural Nevada about a
> week ago and had a few hours to spare, so I dropped
> in
> on a dry lake near the road home.
>
> In two hours I had about 20 small fragments but huge
> dust devils were circling me like a pack of wolves.
> Several times I started to run for the truck for
> cover
> when the storm just dissolved away. At one point I
> looked up to check the threatening dust and to my
> surprise, a pickup was emerging from the cloud. One
> can go a week out here without seeing another soul
> (except for the Navy boys streaking by overhead), so
> it's always startling to meet someone like this. It
> turned out to be Robert Verish and his wife, Beth.
> Like me, they hadn't set out to hunt meteorites but
> were passing by and couldn't resist. It turned out
> to
> be a good day for all of us.
>
> All up, I covered 4.9 kilometers on foot in a little
> over five hours and recovered 58 stones, including
> one
> with very fresh heavy fusion crust, certainly a
> distinct fall from the others which were all
> visually
> similar. Despite the fairly short day, this was a
> new
> personal record for me. (Actually, I stopped at 60,
> but two of them flunked closer inspection at
> home---).
>
>
> Beth Verish found a very nice crusted nearly
> complete
> individual about an inch in diameter and another
> fairly big 20-30 gm piece (as well as a nice bunch
> of
> smaller pieces). When I left, the Verishes were
> still
> going strong and had a nice collection.
>
> I individually photograph each piece in situ, take a
> GPS fix, and bag each one with coordinates, date and
> time. Taking the time required for this process
> into
> account, I was finding a new specimen after every
> three or four minutes of search time! Not a bad
> day!
>
> Cheers,
> Norm
> http://tektitesource.com
>
>
> --- Michael Murray <mmurray at montrose.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm not looking for details such as location,
> type,
> > or any of that
> > but, I need a meteorite hunting success story fix.
>
> > Anyone have a
> > recent one they would at least acknowledge on
> list?
> >
> > Coming up empty-handed so far this year... Michael
> > Murray
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Received on Fri 18 May 2007 10:33:18 PM PDT