[meteorite-list] West Meteorite tally, PLEASE let's get this one right

From: Fries, Marc D <marc.d.fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:17:34 -0800
Message-ID: <C5D34EEE.6136%Marc.D.Fries_at_jpl.nasa.gov>

This scientist could only make it there for one and a half days, on my own
dime, and would have loved to stay. A downside of our profession is that
most of us have to account for our (fairly pricey) time and don?t have much
in the way of flexibility.

I?m very interested in seeing the tally from this fall. Even better would
be a detailed strewn field map with locations and masses, but even a rough
depiction of the strewn field long axis (axes?) would be great stuff. Seems
to me that a downside of your profession is that that information is used to
support yourselves and so becomes proprietary. I understand that, but it is
a real loss scientifically speaking.

Cheers,
Marc Fries

On 3/3/09 9:06 PM, "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> I join Robert in requesting an exact stone count and weight tally in order to
> get this fall as close as possible to exact number of stones and TKW.
>
> I have the following
>
> Woolard 7 = 407g
> Wesel 10 = 255g
> Farmer 23 = 531.6g
>
> I know that more than 45 meteorite hunters showed up in the field, so come on
> guys, lets get the tally done as fast as possible so we can firm up the TKW on
> this fantastic new fall.
>
> Let's show the scientists that we as collectors can compile data and properly
> record a new fall all by ourselves. By the way, the one thing I never did run
> into down there was a single scientist.
> Pity, some of them hate collectors and dealers, but when a fall occurs, they
> are nowhere to be seen or collect a stone and rush off to the lab forgetting
> that there are hundreds if not thousands of other stones left to rot.
>
> Michael Farmer
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