[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: pkmorgan at ctcweb.net <pkmorgan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:20:37 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <38268.66.162.131.66.1204834837.squirrel_at_mail.ctcweb.net>

Oh, and the article was from almost a year ago...

Way to go McCartney...

I'm done making a fool of myself now...


> 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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