[meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:07:08 +0100
Message-ID: <20100304210708.222060_at_gmx.net>

Now *THIS* is what I would call a REAL GOOD STORY!!! Thanks a bunch,
Count, for telling it! I am sure, Guido, the folks here will enjoy
reading your report as much as I did!

Thank you also for your personal comments in German language - this
is well appreciated! And, by the way, I was quite impressed to read
about your family backgrounds on a very well-known public website.

Many thanks once again, Count Deiro - my sincere congrats, Guido!
Alex
Berlin/Germany


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:34:37 -0500 (EST)
> Von: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> An: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!

> Alexander Seidel and List,
>
> Alexander asked that I share with him and the List the personal experience
> of having my first find be such a remarkable specimen. I am told by those
> who should know that this chondrite is the largest intact specimen so far
> found in Nevada. I would ask the List if this is so.
>
> Here's an account for those who wish to read about a "newbie" finding his
> first metorite.
>
> I began to study meteorites about a year ago as a diversion to take my
> mind off the two years of radiation and chemo treatments I had been undergoing
> for stage IV metastized cancer. I had responded well for a 72 year old and
> was in remission. I needed some new pursuit to get my mental and physical
> health back. Little did I know that I was about to catch another
> disease..and this one incurable...the obsession with meteorites.
>
> After purchasing some sixty different types and classifications, a stereo
> scope and a cabinet for comparison purposes ...and reading numerous posts
> on List and dozens of papers, attending Tucson... putting faces on all whom
> I had met online... I decided I was ready to go into the field.
>
> I was fortunate to have made acquaintance with Sonny Clary who lives
> nearby. He had become my mentor, given me samples and shown me some pointers on
> hunting by taking me on a short local trip to look at an area of interest.
> We spent maybe two hours in the field. Sonny moves quickly, his acute
> vision and experience letting him cover a lot of ground in very little time. I
> found I was more comfortable going my own way and not slowing him up.
> Neither he, nor I, found anything.
>
> I have four grandsons and I spent a few hours in some vacant fields in Las
> Vegas throwing down weathered samples and demonstrating to them the use of
> the cane and detector. Ten year old , Vincent, was fascinated. The others
> non-plussed.
>
> Night before last, May 2nd., Sonny called late and invited me to spend my
> first full day hunting an area he felt was promising several hours away. We
> met at his home and loaded up the gear, food and water. Brix, his super
> Alsatian, whined excitedly knowing we were going on a hunt. Sonny has trained
> Brix to the point that the dog will bring him rocks in the field. No
> meteorites yet...but it will happen.
>
> We arrived in the desert around nine o'clock. The temperature was a
> pleasant 67 degrees under clear skies and no wind. We saddled up and agreed as to
> which way each of us would go. Sonny took off to the left and I to the
> right. Within minutes we were out of sight of each other. We did have a means
> of communicating electronically in the event of an emergency. Both of us
> are Nevadans and have spent years in the desert hunting game, Sonny
> meteorites and in my case, before it became illegal, early man artifacts.
>
> After several hours with no luck, we met back at the truck and traveled
> two miles north on the valley floor. After another hour or two of nothing but
> meteor wrongs picked up from the desert pavement, Sonny decided to expand
> our search area again several miles west.
>
> This time we were on excellent ground. Flat, with very little organic
> growth and hardly any rocks at all. If they were here, the meteorites would
> stand out prominently. Again, Sonny strode off northwest with Brix roaming in
> front of him. Brix has received snake avoidance training and a good thing,
> because the rattlers, including the feared "Mohave Green", are coming out
> of their dens this time of year to warm themselves, and shed their winter
> skin, making them ill tempered and aggressive. Sonny hunted with no
> assistance from cane, or detector. I used my staff with a circular neodymium magnet
> screwed on the end.
>
> I followed Sonny to the west, deciding to make the first leg of my search
> into the reduced visibility of the sun, so I could make the other two half
> mile legs with the sun at my side and rear to highlight the ground and
> prevent squinting. I have special tinted prescription glasses that provide some
> UV protection, reduce eye strain and sharpen the field of view.
>
> Sonny and Brix were quickly out of sight. About an hour and a half into
> things and while walking forward a few paces at a 45 degree angle to the left
> and then to the right, my scan picked up an irregular shape 50' to my
> right. It was so out of place as to shape and color that I knew immediately it
> was a possible. I turned and walked toward it. As I got within a few yards
> I could see that it had the familiar dark desert patination that I had
> studied on my Gold Basin samples. It was a three inch high tip sticking out of
> the ground like a triangular iceberg. I started to laugh out loud as I
> walked around it in a tight circle. Taking my cane, I carefully placed it close
> along side dangling it loosely between two fingers. Nevada chondrites tend
> to have low metal. The cane moved slowly against the rock. So subtle was
> it's movement that I didn't immediately believe it and had to do the
> exercise all around the tip. Each time it "clicked" I got a rush of excitement.
> Before I could contain myself, I reached down and grabbed the exposed tip and
> pulled. My hand slipped off.
>
> I began to dig with my hands. Down two inches. Still no movement. Step
> back. Put scale cube down. Take picture. Three more inches and shove it with
> your foot. No movement. More pictures and the thought of "How in the hell
> did I get this lucky?" Frantic digging like a rabid gopher. "How big was this
> thing?" "Wow" "Wait till Sonny sees this." Then I got greedy. I didn't
> want it to stop getting bigger, but finally at a depth of about nine inches I
> was able to go under the edge of the triangular shape. I stood up, put my
> foot against it and shoved. It came free from it's thousands of years
> entrapment in the desert floor. I had my first find.
>
> I called Sonny on cell. At first he thought I was joking, but when I
> offered a $100 wager if he came and found it was not a meteorite, he started his
> trek to my location. He arrived in fifteen minutes, the last few yards
> with a huge grin on his face and his arms out stretched. "Dude" he said. "You
> the man." We were like a couple of kids for a minute. Literally pounding
> each others fists and laughing. I have never seen Sonny so animated. Brix
> immediately went to the meteorite, and curling around it, he laid down on
> guard. It was his now.
>
> Count Deiro
> IMCA 3536
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Danken Ihnen f?r Ihre Gl?ckw?nsche. Ich spreche ein kleines Deutsch.
> Ich bin eine erste Generation Italiener/Amerikaner. Mein Vater wurde nahe an
> Torino geboren und meine Mutter war von Lyon. Ich habe viele Reisen nach
> Deutschland gemacht und ich habe Freunde in Hamburgs, Berlin, Frankfurten und
> M?nchen. Ich werde Ihnen meine kleine Geschichte auf Englisch erz?hlen.
> Ja habe ich viele Verwandte in N?rdlichem Italien und ich besuche jedes
> Jahr.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> >Sent: Mar 4, 2010 10:39 AM
> >To: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >Sogar sehr gut, Count! :-) Wuerdest Du uns.... err, pardon, I should
> better switch to my bad English, Sir!
> >
> >Wouldn?t you like to tell us about the details, Guido? I mean, what
> exactly happened when you parted from Sonny Clary on your own track, how long
> did it take you to realize there was something strange down there? Did you
> first stick a magnet to that "pyramid" looking out of the soil? Did you
> immediately realize THIS IS IT, or was it a second thought? Was Sonny near by,
> did you call him? Did you extract that whole big stone with your hands
> (...before Sonny arrived?) or did you have a tool to do it? ... You know,
> Count, sorts of "story telling" like this, which may enjoy you while writing,
> and surely enjoys us when reading! So please, Guido, think of the idea of
> writing this up for me, ...errrr I mean for us, of course!
> >
> >Oh, by the way, I read you are a real Count. Then again you sign with
> Guido, which is a first name somewhat common in Germany and Switzerland. Do
> you have ancestors here, on this side of the Big Pond, while being American
> citizen? Well, just curious... :-)
> >
> >All my best, ganz herzliche Gruesse an Dich,
> >Alex from Berlin
> >
> >
> >
> >-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >> Datum: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:27:51 -0500 (EST)
> >> Von: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> >> An: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> >> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >> Thank you, Alex
> >>
> >> Alles gut est....
> >>
> >> Guido
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> >> >Sent: Mar 4, 2010 4:52 AM
> >> >To: countdeiro at earthlink.net, wahlperry at aol.com,
> >> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, nakhladog at comcast.net
> >> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> >> >
> >> >That?s fabulous, Count! You are da bomb! :-)
> >> >
> >> >Best,
> >> >Alex
> >> >Berlin/Germany
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >> >> Datum: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:14:45 -0500 (EST)
> >> >> Von: countdeiro at earthlink.net
> >> >> An: Rob Wesel <nakhladog at comcast.net>,
> >> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, wahlperry at aol.com
> >> >> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> >> >
> >> >> Can you imagine the feelings that course through you when your on
> your
> >> >> first full day of hunting after 10 months of study and you have to
> dig
> >> with
> >> >> your hands to unearth this 28 pounder? Your first meteorite? I
> almost
> >> messed
> >> >> myself. I am emboldened now to say that I have graduated and I, for
> >> one,
> >> >> will no longer refer to myself as a newbie.
> >> >>
> >> >> My best wishes to everyone who shares the obsession with these
> visitors
> >> >> from space. Thank you Sonny.
> >> >>
> >> >> Guido
> >> >>
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> >From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog at comcast.net>
> >> >> >Sent: Mar 3, 2010 9:45 PM
> >> >> >To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, wahlperry at aol.com
> >> >> >Subject: [meteorite-list] Way To Go Count!!!!!!!!!!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Holy cow!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Nice one guys and to The Count....Is it in the city limits?????
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Really nice find, congratu-frickin-lations. Must have been
> something
> >> to
> >> >> find
> >> >> >that peak and have to keep digging and digging and digging
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Rob Wesel
> >> >> >www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
> >> >> >www.facebook.com/nakhladog
> >> >> >------------------
> >> >> >We are the music makers...
> >> >> >and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
> >> >> >Willy Wonka, 1971
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >----- Original Message -----
> >> >> >From: <wahlperry at aol.com>
> >> >> >To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> >> >> >Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:30 PM
> >> >> >Subject: [meteorite-list] I hate Count (Guido) Diero ! : )
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Hi List,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I bet you could call this beginners luck. I took Guido out
> meteorite
> >> >> >> hunting. I turned left and he turned right. To check out what he
> >> found
> >> >> >> scroll to the bottom of the meteorite hunts page. More to come
> >> later.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> http://www.nevadameteorites.com/nevadameteorites/METEORITE_HUNTS.html
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Sonny
> >> >> >>
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