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

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:28:32 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <249775.11001.qm_at_web110612.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Actually Marc, I also went there on my own dime, like the other roughly 50 meteorite hunters. I have no paycheck coming in like you, I have to hustle if I want paid. I have no retirement fund other that what I sock away on my own, no health-care plan, no sick days or any other form of money other than what I make myself. I had plans, and work to do, and this meteorite fall forced me to change those plans, and prioritize my time. Of course not everyone can do that, but come on, central Texas, barely one hour from Austin or Dallas, and no interest from meteorite specialists.

I also told the meteorite list a week ago that I am going to publish my strewn-field map, with almost 100 stones to be listed. I can not list the other team's stones, as again, they are sworn to secrecy and not likely to share that kind of data like I am going to. Give me till Thursday or Friday and I should have the map up for all who want it.
Michael Farmer

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Fries, Marc D <marc.d.fries at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> From: Fries, Marc D <marc.d.fries at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] West Meteorite tally, PLEASE let's get this one right
> To: "meteoriteguy at yahoo.com" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>, "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 10:17 PM
> 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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