[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: mccartney <mccartney_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:12:12 -0600
Message-ID: <46115bf2087846e98fd787cae7a213a8_at_ucv1.vhostdns.com>

I've just returned from a new fall. It looked like everyone missed this fall, so I went.

I spent 2 weeks down there hunting down stones, and canvasing the area house by house. Its mainly agricultural land and dominated by vineyards. Unfortunately, there is never plowing in vineyards, so no more stones will be found. (maybe 1 or 2 in the coming years) Most of my time was spent in public outreach and teaching people how to identify stones.

TKW is 5 kg at this time. I recovered 2.3kg. Looks like an H4 or H5 Ordinary Chondrite.

Conditions were not good for recovery, almost all stones punched into the soft ground 1/4 meters. Those stones that were recovered were because they hit near someone or hit a road.

http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1241.jpg
http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1299.jpg
http://texasmeteoritelab.com/x/img_1257.jpg

I've got to get my saw up and running and cut specimens in the next few days. I'll post more details later.

Anyone want to guess which country the fall was in?

-mt
Received on Thu 06 Mar 2008 02:12:12 PM PST