[meteorite-list] New Fall!

From: wahlperry at aol.com <wahlperry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:13:46 -0500
Message-ID: <8CA4EC0070D60C3-1788-4344_at_webmail-ne10.sysops.aol.com>

Hi All,
Still a cool find. But the statement no more will be found is not true!
You can never find all the meteorites! More will turn up ,different
detectors and hunting techniques. That is just how it is. I took a good
friend meteorite hunting to a area, were I thought most meteorites were
picked up. He had found 4 within a couple hours. He is no longer my
friend. Just teasing!

Sonny


-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; Eric Wichman
<eric at meteoritewatch.com>
Sent: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 2:44 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall!



Hi, Eric and fellow guessers!

I thought the same thing, but when I looked:
http://www.winesnw.com/oregon_eastern.html
I saw that there were only two wineries north of
Pendleton (where the fall was reported).

McCartney clearly says the region is agricultural
and is "dominated" by vineyards. Since the entire
state of Oregon has only 15,000 acres of vineyards,
I can't see how two wineries north of Pendleton can
"dominate" the region. (And the weather maps show
snow depths of 24 inches or more in the area.)


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Wichman" <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall!


Hey there,

The country is the United States. The Wine country referred to is
Oregon... They have 15 wine regions in the state. There was a recent
Fall up there that no one seems to be talking about much on list or
anywhere for that matter. The Washington/Oregon Meteor that was seen
all across the northwest on February 19th which come to think of it
just happens to be perfect timing given the time frame for the
"Return from a New Fall." and the "spent 2 weeks down there". Plus
the entire area up there where the meteorite is supposed to have
impacted is nothing but agricultural area with mountains to the
Southeast.

The "down there" is simply a misdirection... ;) clever

Maybe I'm wrong but that's my guess...

Eric
www.MeteoriteWatch.com
www.MeteoiritesUSA.com

P.S. NICE ROCKS! Beautiful... I want one... ;)



At 12:36 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "mccartney" <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
>
>Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:12:12
>To:<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>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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