[meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog of Bethlehem

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:04:47 -0800
Message-ID: <C5C9225F.D83%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Anyone know of anyone selling any Bthlehem, NY?
        Cotact off list please - thanks, Michael


On 2/24/09 12:15 AM, "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au> wrote:

> To Rob? I think that's a pretty fitting home for the West Dog Meteortite to
>
go live with the Nakhla Dog! ;-)

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message
> -----
From: "Ruben Garcia" <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>
To: "Frank Cressy"
> <fcressy at prodigy.net>;
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Walter Branch"
>
<waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:15 PM
Subject:
> Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in West Texas


> Hi all.
> I'm
> heading home in the morning with a bag full of meteorites. Ok, it's a
> small
> bag but I'm happy. I got 6 complete individuals and a fractured
> specimen.
> I interviewed some of the locals as well as hunters and should
> have at
> least a couple of good stories/videos!
>
> I'm not sure (nor is anyone else)
> why the dog decided to pick up the
> meteorite. However, the owners gladly
> wrote out a nice little story about
> how it happened and for everyone dying
> to know, the meteorite found by the
> dog was purchased by my friend Rob
> Wessel.
>
>
>
> Ruben Garcia
> Phoenix, Arizona
> Website:
> http://www.Mr-Meteorite.Net
> Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/
>
> Videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&p=v
>
>
> ---
> On Sat, 2/21/09, Walter Branch <waltbranch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> From:
> Walter Branch <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]
> Meteorite Finding Dog in West Texas
>> To: "Frank Cressy"
> <fcressy at prodigy.net>,
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Date:
> Saturday, February 21, 2009, 5:53 PM
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> Funny story. Thanks
> for sharing.
>>
>> BTW, I just re-read your article on in Meteorite on
>>
> Braunau. Interesting detective work.
>>
>> -Walter
>>
>> ----- Original
> Message ----- From: "Frank Cressy"
>> <fcressy at prodigy.net>
>> To:
> <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
>> <mexicodoug at aim.com>;
> <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>;
>> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>;
>>
> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:42 PM
>>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog in West
>> Texas
>>
>>
>>
> > Hi Rubin and all,
>> >
>> > One hundred and fifty years ago, a stone fell
> in
>> Bethlehem, New York on August 11 that also involved a
>> meteorite
> finding dog, apparently not as well trained as the
>> West, Texas dog. C.U.
> Shepard wrote:
>> >
>> > ?Mr. Vanderpool was at work near his house,
> and
>> heard the explosion in common with other members of his
>> family.
> About two minutes after, as it appeared to him, a
>> stone, coming in an
> oblique course, struck the side
>> > of a wagon house, glanced off, hit a log
> upon the
>> ground, bounded again, and rolled into the grass. A dog
>> lying
> in the doorway of the wagon house sprang up, darted
>> out and seized it, but
> dropped it immediately, probably on
>> account of its warmth and sulphurous
> small.?
>> >
>> > And of course there's the story about the dog that
>> found
> the Lost City meteorite in January, 1970. Must have
>> been too heavy to
> carry so he just "marked it",
>> probably so he could find it again. ;-)
>>
> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Frank
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Ruben
> Garcia
>> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Ruben Garcia
> <meteoritemall at yahoo.com>
>> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Finding Dog
> in
>> West Texas
>> > To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com,
>>
> mexicodoug at aim.com, meteorobs at meteorobs.org,
>> ensoramanda at ntlworld.com
>> >
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 5:08 PM
>> >
>> > There is indeed a
> meteorite finding dog!
>> >
>> > Here's the story. On Friday Sonny, Steve
> Arnold
>> and I drove into the strewn
>> > field bright and early and
> immediately started
>> knocking on doors to try to gain
>> > permission to
> hunt. Upon walking up to a particular
>> house Sonny spotted a
>> > meteorite
> on the porch (about 70-90 grams) he picked
>> it up, and laid it back
>> >
> down. "Ruben, did you see that fully crusted
>> meteorite on the porch?"
>> >
> He Said. I couldn't believe it. He was right!
>> Right there on the porch
> but
>> > no one was home...what to do? Since Sonny assured me
>> that he
> wasn't going to
>> > buy meteorites when he could find them I decided to
>>
> track down the owner and try
>> > to buy the specimen.
>> >
>> > I got the
> owners work phone number from a neighbor and
>> called. After
>> > introducing
> myself and explaining what I was in town
>> for, I told the owner that
>> >
> there was a meteorite on their porch. "What, you
>> mean that black rock
> that
>> > the dog brought up and dropped on the porch?"
>> "Yes, that one"
> I
>> > said.
>> >
>> > Needless to say, I drove down and did a nice video
>>
> interview with the owner
>> > holding the space rock and recalling the
> tale.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ruben Garcia
>> > Phoenix, Arizona
>> > Website:
> http://www.Mr-Meteorite.Net
>> > Articles: http://www.meteorite.com/blog/
>> >
> Videos:
>> http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=meteorfright&p=v
>> >
>>
> >
>> > --- On Sat, 2/21/09, ensoramanda at ntlworld.com
>>
> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> From:
> ensoramanda at ntlworld.com
>> <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
>> >> Subject: Re:
> [meteorite-list] West, Texas
>> meteorite finds
>> >> To:
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com,
>> mexicodoug at aim.com,
>> >
> meteorobs at meteorobs.org
>> >> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 4:18 AM
>> >>
> Quick...make an offer for the dog!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the interesting
> update/report.
>> >>
>> >> Graham Ensor UK
>> >>
>> >> ---- mexicodoug at aim.com
> wrote:
>> >> > Hello from Sunny Texas, under clear and
>> starry-eyed
>> >>
> skies at the moment,
>> >> >
>> >> > A few stones were found right at the time
> of
>> the fall,
>> >> however, they
>> >> > were not definitively identified
> as
>> meteorites -
>> >> though that was the
>> >> > suspicion and they were
> saved.
>> >> >
>> >> > We (Doug Dawn, Dmitry Sadilenko, Sergey
>> Petukov)
> drove
>> >> across the
>> >> > country and estimated the location of the
>>
> strewn field
>> >> within 48 hours
>> >> > of the event. With a bit of
> tenacity,
>> scarcely four
>> >> hours after the
>> >> > second day, thanks to
> the help of some
>> Texas-sized
>> >> hospitality, we
>> >> > arrived in the
> strewn field and found our
>> first couple
>> >> of stones and I
>> >> > had
> the distinct pleasure of shaking the
>> finders hand
>> >> and removing any
>>
> >> > lingering doubts in his mind that he had
>> meteorites
>> >> fresh from
> Heaven's
>> >> > farm.
>> >> >
>> >> > After the initial success, my good
> friend and
>> >> asteroidhunter, Rob
>> >> > Matson of Los Angeles, joined up
> with the
>> team. We
>> >> have found some
>> >> > stones, but more are being
> found by others,
>> and we
>> >> really expect larger
>> >> > masses to be
> found, though hard work in the
>> field
>> >> definitely gets you
>> >> >
> wondering if just because such a meteoritical
>> >> spectacle drops one
>> >>
> > stone, should it drop the thousands we keep
>> expecting
>> >> to see? The
> TKW
>> >> > is rapidly evolving, but the area is being
>> hit quite
>> >> hard
> by hunters
>> >> > already. This doesn't seem to be a dense
>> fall, and
>> >>
> some areas are very
>> >> > easy to search, though bramble in other areas
>>
> >> effectively keeps those
>> >> > off limits. All land is private and most
>>
> families keep
>> >> their gun
>> >> > collections well oiled. In our case,
> the
>> big-hearts of
>> >> the landowners
>> >> > have humbled easily as much
> as the witness
>> reports of
>> >> the bolide's
>> >> > fragmenting itself.
> This is at odds with some
>> other
>> >> reports, only
>> >> > because
> residents of the area treasure their
>> privacy
>> >> and were
>> >> >
> completely overwhelmed by the wave of
>> treasure hunters
>> >> that
> descended.
>> >> > We almost lost our permission to hunt when
>> they
>> >>
> believed that we were
>> >> > somehow responsible for several meteorite
>>
> hunters
>> >> showing up with a
>> >> > news crews. Besides being quite busy,
> I
>> promised to
>> >> respect the
>> >> > anonymity of our hosts as a
> condition of our
>> search,
>> >> and this evening
>> >> > we reaped the
> benefits of a delicious
>> home-cooked
>> >> dinner prepared by
>> >> > the
> caring hands of our hosts at their dinner
>> table.
>> >> There is a great
>>
> >> > Texas steakhouse on I-35 which adds to the
>> flavor for
>> >> anyone
> wanting to
>> >> > experience Texas culture, cowboys and pretty
>> cowgirls
>>
> >> from West, TX.
>> >> >
>> >> > It has been an incredible last few days,
>>
> which started
>> >> by being the
>> >> > first to walk in a virgin strewn
> field,
>> though my
>> >> mother had some
>> >> > problems (she seems better
> now) that have
>> somewhat
>> >> muted what will
>> >> > undoubtedly be some
> of the most memorable
>> moments of
>> >> my life. It is way
>> >> > past
> bedtime and I will post more tomorrow.
>> The
>> >> meteorite itself is
>> >>
> > moderately to highly shocked and has a very
>> bright,
>> >> light, interior
> and
>> >> > veins of troilite and nodules of metal, and
>> the
>> >> majority
> of stones
>> >> > found are fully fusion crusted. More on the
>> >>
> classification on Saturday.
>> >> > We certainly were not in a mass-laden
> portion
>> of the
>> >> strewn field,
>> >> > other hunters please take note;
> more likely
>> just a
>> >> place where a minor
>> >> > fragmentation
> impacted. In any case, we are
>> committed
>> >> to getting the
>> >> >
> science done so everyone else can rest
>> assured that we
>> >> have
> already
>> >> > gladly provided the mass requirements
>> necessary for
>> >>
> this honor.
>> >> >
>> >> > All in all, a very humbling experience for
>>
> many
>> >> reasons. To pick up a
>> >> > piece of a falling star and I
> thought, detect
>> a faint
>> >> sulfurous odor.
>> >> > It seems a dog even
> caught the scent of a
>> meteorite
>> >> and laid it down on
>> >> > the
> owners porch!
>> >> >
>> >> > Best wishes and clear skies
>> >> > Doug
>> >>
> >
>> >> >
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Pat Branch
> <pat_branch at yahoo.com>
>> >> > To: drtanuki at yahoo.com; Global Meteor
>>
> Observing Forum
>> >> > <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
>> >> > Sent: Fri, 20 Feb
> 2009 9:28 am
>> >> > Subject: Re: (meteorobs) West, Texas
>> meteorite
> finds
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > The University of North Texas Astronomers
>>
> have found 4
>> >> so far. I saw a
>> >> > video clip of them. The biggest is
> about 3
>> times the
>> >> others...just
>> >> > about palm sized.
>> >> >
>>
> >> > I think that is 4 for Farmer and 4 for UNT. I
>> have not
>> >> heard of
> other
>> >> > teams finding anything.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --- In
> meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, drtanuki
>> >> <drtanuki at ...> wrote:
>> >> > >
>>
> >> > > Dear List,
>> >> > > Here are the latest reports from the
>> West,
> Texas
>> >> fall.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>>
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Best Regards,
> Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>> >> > >
>>
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