[meteorite-list] New West totals

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:15 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <818a17101cf6adc1a4f70dda63ead2a9.squirrel_at_webmail1.lpl.arizona.edu>

Hi Teddy:

Thanks for compiling this. This is exactly what I need to update one of
the articles that will appear in the May issue of Meteorite magazine.

Larry

Larry Lebofsky
Co-Editor, Meteorite magazine

> A lot more of West has been recovered since I last posted find totals
> over a week ago, and this list isn?t even complete. A number of
> hunters are planning more trips, or may even still be out there. Some,
> like Mike Farmer say they will post their revised totals when they are
> done collecting, so we can expect these numbers to change. That said,
> these numbers should give a better idea of how much West has been
> collected; and it?s quite a lot more then originally projected. I have
> reordered the numbers from highest weight totals to lowest. Enjoy.
>
> 1. Steve Arnold: 69 stones, total: 2362g
> 2. Micheal Farmer: 26 stones, total: 2066.92g
> 3. Unknown owner: 1 stone, total: 1700g
> 4. Robert Woolard: and son 7 stones, total: 407 grams
> 5. Mike Miller: 8 stones totaling: 365g (212g)
> 6. MexicoDoug, Dima and Rob's group: 16 stones, total: 360g
> 7. Micheal Cottingham: 18 stones, total: 286g
> 8. Greg Hupe: 12 stone total: 268g (50g)
> 9. Rob Wesel: 9 stones, total: 255 g
> 10. Dave Gheesling 2 stones, total: 255g (104.9g, 150.1g)
> 11. Ruben Garcia: 15 stones? total: 197g (12.6g)
> 12. Geoff Notkin: 13 stones total: 116.8 (18.8g,)
> 13. Bob Haag: 4 stones, total:89g
> 14. 14. Del Waterbury: 5 stones totaling: 75.3g (8g, 5,6g, 5.2g, 5.5g,
> 51g,)
> 15. Mike Bandli: 6 stones, total: 53.715g
> 16. John Sinclair: 4 stones, total: 43.91g (5.77g, 9.84g, 13.55g, 14.75g
> 17. Greg Stanley: 1 stone, total: 42g
> 18. James Phillips: 4 stones, total: 36.3
> 19. Art Ehlmann: 1 stone (not his?) total: 35g
> 20. Friend of Woolard: 1 stone, total: 31.7g
> 21. Matt Morgan: 2 stones, total: 22.5 (11.5g, 11g)
> 22. Ron DiIulio and Co.:2 stones, total: 20.3g (13.6, 6.7)
> 23. Mike Morgan: 1 stone total: 13g
> 24. Eric Wichman: 1 stone, total: 6.7 grams
> 25. Jim Baxter: 1 stone from Mike Farmer, total: 5.9g
> 26. Lesa Lambert and Steve Dunklee 1 stone, total: 0.45g
> 27. Patrick Thompson: 15 stones total: unknown
> 28. Keith and Dana Jenkerson: 4 stones, total: unknown
>
> Totals: 230 stones with known weights = 9114.495g + at least 19 other
> known stones lacking weights + unknown numbers from these hunters:
>
> Jim Schade
> Sonny Clary
> Shauna Russel
> Robert Ward
> Gary Curtiss
> Derek Bower
>
> Totals: 230 stones with known weights = 9114.495g, averaging out to
> 39.6g per stone.
>
> However, that average is inflated by 2 stones weighing 1.7 and
> 1.5kilos. The average excluding those stones is 25.9g per stone.
>
> On a personal note, a few people have publicly wondered why I am
> helping collect this data. I am a 22-years-old student/journalist
> currently living in RI with a passion for meteorites and a growing
> fixation on the idea of hunting for them. If I could have afforded to
> be go to Texas I would have dropped everything to hunt the West fall.
> However, I am currently poor and therefore decided I would do what I
> could to help from home instead. I noticed that a number of list
> members were asking for aggregated data on the West fall and thought I
> could step up and help fill that void. There is no ulterior motive for
> this, just an interest in helping where I can. Clearly I have no
> expertise to offer, just a knack for research and little spare time.
> Hope that clears things up. I will post again when more data comes in.
> Cheers ? Teddy A
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