[meteorite-list] New Fall

From: Armando Afonso <armandoafonso_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:57:39 -0000
Message-ID: <000801c87fc4$54ec50b0$62b0fea9_at_TOSHIBA>

Spain, right?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Anne DelRay" <delraygoddess at yahoo.com>
To: <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall


> ha.. I love how McCartney makes it into a game..
> congrats on your finds.
>
> -Leigh Anne
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> --- mccartney <mccartney at blackbearddata.com> wrote:
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>> 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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