[meteorite-list] Tally of WI fall masses

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 21:44:54 +0200
Message-ID: <20100504194454.241690_at_gmx.net>

Most interesting, Robert, thank you! Then again, there may be a lot of (unknown) people who have not reported their grand totals in finds so far, and last but not least I imagine quite a big load of stones may still be resting there in that supposedly long strewn field, awaiting their finder one of these days...

>From my (geographically far-away) point of perspective, what I found especially nice to read was that the cooperation with the farmers seems to be good. The people there in Wisconsin seem to be friendly, and so it generally seems to be an overall good hunting atmosphere. Which, while reading all those different posts, does not in any case (unfortunately), but should generally reflect itself on this forum.

A special question: are there farmers who strictly oppose scanning their land? I mean, who better want to get out for a search by themselves alone and find something, or just opposing any search by outsiders for reasons whatever (..may be bad experiences with hunters on their land, or may be an attitude of not being interested in all of this hype?).

Seems to be a very nice brecciated meteorite visually, by the way!

Good luck to the potential finders,
Alex
Berlin/Germany

 



   
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:52:00 -0700
> Von: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Tally of WI fall masses

> Hi All,
>
> In the interest of trying to estimate the TKW of the SW Wisconsin fall,
> I've gone back through all the Met-List posts, RFSPOD images, newspaper
> stories, web-based articles, and anything else public I could find to
> generate a rough stone tally. Obviously this is far from a complete
> list, and in many cases I don't know the masses of particular finds --
> only that a find exists. I'm sure others here can help filling in the
> blanks, adding stones that I've missed, or correcting information where
> my data is bad or incomplete. The finds below are alphabetical by
> finder name (when known); unknown finder names are at the end.
>
> Steve Arnold: 176.1g
> Larry Atkins: at least one find (Ref: RFSPD 4/25)
> Karl Aston: 160.7g
> Jim Baxter: 152g, 20g, + 1 more
> Bren (farmer's wife): ~100g
> Sonny Clary: 205.6g (Brix find), 144g, 16.8g
> Michael Cottingham: 51g (hammer)
> Mike Farmer: 131g, 36g, 20g, 17g
> Ruben Garcia: 25g, 9.2g, 7.7g, + others?
> Mark Hirsch: at least one find
> Mark Hugill: 11g (purchased by Terry Boudreaux)
> Greg Hupe: 33.7g
> Joe Kerchner: 332g
> Bill Kies: 38g, 44g, + others
> Marvin Killgore: ~300g
> Jackson McCluskey: 35g
> Mike Miller: 7.7g, 9.6g, + at least 2 more
> Stan (last name?): 21g
> Todd Parker: 108g
> Dave Schultz: 20g + ~25g?
> Wade (farmer): 7.5g initial hammer find sent to UW
> Robert Ward: 2 finds (masses unknown)
> Rob Wesel: 219.2g
> Eric Wichman: 14.5g, 19.9g, 18.3g, + others?
> Robert Woolard: 3.2g
>
> Iowa-Grant schoolgirl: 1 find, mass unknown
> Sister of Ashley Liddicoat: 1 find, mass unknown
>
> Total # of stones: 44+
> TKW of stones above w/known masses: 2539.7g
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