[meteorite-list] who were the uncooperative secret searchers ?

From: Rob Wesel <rob_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:14 -0700
Message-ID: <003001c9a203$790656f0$6501a8c0_at_windows9bb74fe>

Very good, I thought coordinates were the issue.

As for Hopper, she got definately earned her keep and I think we were the
most fun she's had in years...back to hearding cattle. I DO NOT recommend
holding her in your lap though. Smell doesn't wash off.

Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Willy Wonka, 1971


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Notkin"
<geoking at notkin.net>; "Rob Wesel" <rob at nakhladogmeteorites.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] who were the uncooperative secret searchers ?


>
> Not asking for the coordinates, just number of stones and weight.
> You already provided, as have most, thanks for that, much appreciated.
>
> By the way Rob, I had the pleasure of hunting all day with Hopper again,
> as I have many times since day one, and I found a perfect oriented
> meteorite with Hopper in tow.
> That is sure one lovable mutt!
> Michael Farmer
>
> --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Rob Wesel <rob at nakhladogmeteorites.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Rob Wesel <rob at nakhladogmeteorites.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] who were the uncooperative secret searchers
>> ?
>> To: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>, "Meteorite List"
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 10:14 PM
>> Hi guys
>>
>> I did report my totals and weights and I look forward to
>> sharing coordinate data when all the members of our team
>> agree we have completed searching the coordinate areas. We
>> have folks still going back and forth. The data will be
>> shared, but not at the cost of those with whom I owe the
>> finds to. So, if the MAPS article or Meteorite Magazine
>> article have to be this week, they will be short my data. I
>> doubt anything I have is going to shed much unforeseen light
>> as far as changing the distribution ellipse but I WILL share
>> the data, worry not. If you have to publish right away then
>> anticipate someone else producing the revised edition. It's
>> been three weeks, to publish the known strewnfield at this
>> moment is myopic.
>>
>> Rob Wesel
>> http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
>> ------------------
>> We are the music makers...
>> and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
>> Willy Wonka, 1971
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Farmer"
>> <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
>> "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] who were the uncooperative
>> secret searchers ?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Geoff
>> >
>> > Perhaps you are mistaken in you assumptions.
>> > I along with Robert Woolard asked for that data at
>> first so that the article in Meteorite Magazine could be
>> written with as much up-to-date information as possible as
>> we were on an extremely tight time limit.
>> > We got no response from several people, and merely
>> asked several times. I have all data from the people I was
>> working with, and as I said earlier, there was no need to
>> provide daily additions until we are finished hunting. I saw
>> 5 more stones found today, I found one of them. The people I
>> named were already gone from the field so their totals would
>> be final or nearly so.
>> >
>> > As far as "Teddy" goes. I am a little interested how a
>> person who is absolutely unknown, and who has never posted a
>> single post to the list suddenly came to be 48 hours ago and
>> is now the point man for West field work. Using a GMAIL
>> account and appearing out of nowhere and getting all of the
>> West data yet nobody knows who he is makes me wonder a few
>> things.
>> >
>> > "Teddy" email me your phone number so we can chat, I
>> would like to know who I am reporting data to.
>> >
>> > I am working on this map, I have about 60% of the
>> known stones and to add your crew's stones would assist not
>> me, but science.
>> > So please let me know the totals if possible or they
>> will not be included.
>> > There is no problem here, no need to argue over this.
>> Everyone seems to be extremely successful and almost
>> everyone who came found meteorites. Let's finish it up and
>> get the data assembled in the best way possible.
>> > Michael Farmer
>> >
>> > Still in the field, but it looks like heavy rain
>> starting tonight.
>> >
>> >
>> > --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Notkin <geoking at notkin.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Notkin <geoking at notkin.net>
>> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] who were the
>> uncooperative secret searchers ?
>> >> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> >> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 9:40 AM
>> >> Michael Farmer wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Steve Arnold Notkin
>> >> > Thompson Phillips wesel
>> >> > All are refusing to share a scrap of data
>> >> > Mike
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mike:
>> >>
>> >> I suggest you get your facts straight before you
>> start
>> >> accusing my team mates of anything.
>> >>
>> >> Rob Wesel, Patrick Thompson, Ruben Garica, Jason
>> Philips,
>> >> Mike Miller, Steve Arnold, John Sinclair and
>> myself have all
>> >> already provided our find numbers and weights to
>> Teddy. I'm
>> >> sure other numbers will be forthcoming when the
>> finders are
>> >> comfortable with it.
>> >>
>> >> As mentioned earlier on the List, we took several
>> guys out
>> >> with us who found their first meteorite on this
>> trip. We
>> >> also hunted with some of our gracious landowners
>> and showed
>> >> them how to find meteorites on their own property,
>> and asked
>> >> them to let us know if they turned up anything in
>> future. As
>> >> such, I will not have the great group of people I
>> was
>> >> hunting with portrayed on the List as
>> "uncooperative secret
>> >> searchers." I notice that your team members Robert
>> and
>> >> Shauna did not have their totals posted on Teddy's
>> list.
>> >> Maybe you could devote your energy to collecting
>> data from
>> >> your own people before complaining about anyone
>> else.
>> >>
>> >> It's excellent that detailed find data is being
>> compiled on
>> >> this fall. This may be the most accurate
>> strewnfield data
>> >> collected in the US since Jim Kriegh, Twink
>> Monrad, John
>> >> Blennert and friends mapped Gold Basin in the
>> 1990s. And it
>> >> would be even better if we could get along while
>> doing it,
>> >> without pointing fingers.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Geoff N.
>> >>
>> >> www.aerolite.org
>> >> www.meteoriteblog.org
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