[meteorite-list] Puerto Lapice Hunt

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:45:20 -0500
Message-ID: <5CB0F8B49D3D44789DF5394590C42DC2_at_Gregor>

Hey Mike & Co. ~



Way cool hunt! Already successful, and a week to go! Man, I do regret not
going there with you guys!! The Eucrites, Vino, Spanish language...friends
(finding eucrites, oh yah, drinking Vino...), way too cool!!! Hey..., Mel,
Jim, Robert and Moritz (and others...), go out and find a larger stones!!
:-)



Latest News...

We are working hard to preserve more of this extraordinary meteorite fall.
When there is less than 500 grams known of such a rare fall, every gram
preserved for posterity is absolutely crucial. The fact that it is the most
beautiful meteorite I have ever seen, terms of crust, flow lines, shine,
everything you could ever want in a Eucrite, really motivated us to come
back to try again. Moritz and I made the decision to come back barely 10
days ago on the last day I was in Munich. Dima Sadilenko made the trip
happen by buying a tiny fragment of Puerto Lapice that I had at the show, I
was shocked that it did not sell until then so I said that I could not go to
Spain unless someone bought that piece on Sunday and Dima did, so the trip
was on. I told Robert Ward and Jim, who took all of a couple seconds each to
join the expedition. My wife told me that unpleasant things would happen if
she were left out of this one, after hearing 2 years ago about how nice
hunting in Spain was. So the group grew and the hunt is on. Ward is hunting
far out, trying to expand the strewnfield into the mountains, as it surely
must go. When we showed up at the bar and hotel here, everyone knew us, and
the bartender even told me how much he liked the Puerto Lapice photos on my
website. He said that virtually no one had been here except just after we
left. The landowner welcomed us back, said that one of his workers had found
a small stone last year and sold it in Spain, but to his knowledge nothing
else found.

We plan to change that (already did actually). I always regretted not
rushing back to Spain last time, and working this for months, but that was
the time of Cali and Carancas, which fell as I was sitting in this very same
chair here in Puerto Lapice.

We will continue the hunt for another 5 days, then gotta go home and get
ready for the Tokyo show.

Anyway,
Hi Michael,





Thank you for posting the Pic-O-Day.

Congratulations to Mike Farmer for his great eucrite find in Spain! Now I
wish I would have went with them when invited. Oh well, next time!

Keep up the good work, that terrain looks pretty rough and difficult to spot
small black stones between the rocks and shadows. I hope the rest of your
team finds some eucrites as well!!

Best regards,
Greg

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Best regards,
Greg

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