[meteorite-list] New West totals

From: Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <215451.83390.qm_at_web39608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello Teddy,

  Thanks for all the work you've done to compile the West totals. I know a lot of us really appreciate you taking the time to do this. Good job, and a sincere wish for good luck in someday soon finding your own, very first (of many!) meteorite(s)!

  Best wishes,
  Robert Woolard

  


--- On Tue, 3/17/09, teddy applebaum <tiapplebaum at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: teddy applebaum <tiapplebaum at gmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New West totals
> To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 5:02 PM
> 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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Received on Tue 17 Mar 2009 07:35:01 PM PDT