[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: pkmorgan at ctcweb.net <pkmorgan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:15:44 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <34330.66.162.131.66.1204834544.squirrel_at_mail.ctcweb.net>

Ooops, maybe not. Now that I read the article more closely it says...

"Questions also remain over where the incident occurred. It was initially
reported that it happened just after the Auckland-bound aircraft entered
New Zealand airspace.

But Lan Chile said yesterday the flaming object was seen a few minutes
before reaching New Zealand airspace."


The picture of the meteorite distracted me :-)

Phil


> I was going to guess Chile as well. Maybe somewhere between Santiago and
> New Zealand.
>
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10431624
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>>>From Texas: Down there? Vineyard? ---> Chile?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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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