[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: Zelimir Gabelica <Zelimir.Gabelica_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:24:05 +0100
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20080306212041.0289e7c8_at_pop.univ-mulhouse.fr>

South of France ? (a recent fall "vanished" there a few weeks ago, not far
from a famous wine area....).
Just a modest guess as I am not sure you could have so easily planned such
a trip...

Anyway, superb!
Congrats!

Zelimir






A 13:12 06/03/2008 -0600, mccartney a ?crit :
>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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Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
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