[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:33 +0100
Message-ID: <000c01c87fc3$0ff11ff0$0200a8c0_at_ibmtp23>

>From Texas: Down there? Vineyard? ---> Chile?

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From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:12 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New Fall


> 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
>
>
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