[meteorite-list] Carancas crater

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:58:59 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <723624.22264.qm_at_web33103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Tim, it is somewhere in the 10 kilo range, giv or take
a kilo. Of the 10 kilos I know of, about 6 kilograms
was fine dust in baggies. Hans Koser has this
material, he was trying to sell it at the Tucson show.
Moritz Karl and I bought the other ~3 kilos he had,
and most of that is sold now. I have less than 400
grams of material left for sale. Calr Esparza in
Tucson got around 1.4 kilo with Bob Haag, I bought all
of Bob's share from him.
There is about a kilo in a museum in La Paz, Bolivia.
So around 12 kilos is my estimate of total material
recovered.
Michael Farmer
--- Tim Heitz <midwest at meteorman.org> wrote:

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> Has any one ever determined how much of was
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> Thanks,
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> To: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>; "Adam"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Carancas crater
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> > Adam
> > You told everyone on this list that Carancas was
> not a
> > crater, you have been proven wrong, I was proven
> right
> > with the papers in the news this week, I am merely
> > clarifying that, nothing more.
> > Now, what problem is it of mine that uneducated
> idiots
> > pissed in the crater? Does that ruin the event,
> make
> > it useless, wipe it from the history books? It was
> > handled fine on my end, things just got bad when
> > police tried to steal all of our money. What is
> your
> > advice, should I have gone to the president of
> Peru?
> > When you are in the crap, you make decisions on
> the
> > spot, it is not as easy as sitting at your desk
> and
> > typing emails. The locals were nice, just poor
> people
> > who had no idea what was going on, the government
> was
> > inept and corrupt, and the police took advantage
> of
> > the situation to try and rob us, then the
> proverbial
> > crap hit the fan from all sides. Oh well, the
> crater
> > was studied, a tiny amount of the meteorite was
> saved,
> > and the rest, as they say, it history.
> > Michael Farmer
> > --- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Mike and List,
> >>
> >> I conceded the point long ago that the term
> crater
> >> also applies to the Carancas event. I also
> stated
> >> that there are different types of craters and
> this
> >> one
> >> falls into the impact pit category as was the
> case
> >> with the Sikhote Alin event. Some of the craters
> >> (impact pits) left by Sikhote Alin were also
> >> explosive
> >> embedding pieces of the meteorite in trees and
> yet
> >> Ninninger, along with dozens of scientists
> referred
> >> to
> >> them as impact pits. I admit the definition is
> >> somewhat hazy is why I qualified the term with
> "To
> >> me,"
> >>
> >> My only problem with the Carancas thing is that
> was
> >> over-hyped from the beginning with much
> >> misinformation
> >> surrounding it. Then, no respect was given to the
> >> occurrence and a circus soon followed. People
> will
> >> treat you the way you allow them, the same
> applies
> >> to
> >> the Carancas event. Trash was thrown into the
> >> impact
> >> pit, people relieved themselves into it and greed
> >> soon
> >> became a problem. I think if the event was
> handled
> >> in
> >> a more professional matter, I would not have a
> >> problem
> >> with it. The way it stands, I have zero respect
> for
> >> the way it was handled.
> >>
> >> The last from me on this,
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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