[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: Leigh Anne DelRay <delraygoddess_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:53:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <152324.20720.qm_at_web37108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

ha.. I love how McCartney makes it into a game..
congrats on your finds.

-Leigh Anne


--- mccartney <mccartney at blackbearddata.com> wrote:

> 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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